Create hotkeys to minimize and open program window

[Mike]

Suggestion: enable global hotkeys to minimize to tray (in addition to
ESC), and to activate the program's GUI.

[Krzysztof Studnik]

I usually use Everything. Today I decided to give SwiftSearch a try.
And I think the only thing I am missing here, is the customizable hotkey to toggle search window, or at least information that any exist.

[Mike]

AutoHotkey code to activate the search window is below. The image file is a screenshot of the tray icon .

CoordMode, Pixel, Screen
ImageSearch, x, y, 1, 1, % A_ScreenWidth, % A_ScreenHeight/2, swiftSearch.png ; Look for the tray icon
If ErrorLevel ; Tray icon was not found
 SoundBeep, 400, 40
Else ; Tray icon was found
{
 MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos ; Get mouse position.
 CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
 x += 10
 y += 10
 Click %x%, %y% ; Click on the tray icon to activate the program
 MouseMove, %xpos%, %ypos% ; Move mouse back to its original position.
}

The ImageSearch command looks at the top half of the screen, as I have my taskbar at the top. Adjust the parameters as needed; could be something like the following.

ImageSearch, x, y, 1, % A_ScreenHeight/2, % A_ScreenWidth, % A_ScreenHeight, swiftSearch.png

[Anonymous]

My intention was that this could be on your taskbar, and the "hotkey" to view it would just be a key such as Win+4 (for example). To hide, you could press ESC. However, I'm not sure how useful this is, because the search results don't update in real-time, and getting them to do that is far from trivial. Therefore, I don't do that myself; I just close the program and open it again via Win+4.

Have you tried this workflow? Does it not work for you? If it doesn't, could you elaborate on the issues you encounter so I can see if there's a better solution?