Accessing the system tray icon

I've been programming a desktop application with ruby/tk. Using the win32api gem, I've managed to hide and set my program icon to work in the system tray. The icon is displayed succesfully and the texttip works etc.
Now I'd like for the app window to maximize when the tray icon is clicked, or show a menu, but I have no idea how to reference this icon. I used the win32api gem to a) minimize (or hide) the current window via ShowWindow() and b) to create an icon in the
system tray with Shell_NotifyIconA().
Now I want to access the window again via the icon. How can this be achieved?

Hello simon,
According to your description, it seems that this issue seems to be related with Rube development with win32api, for this, I think the Ruby forum is proper for it:
https://www.ruby-forum.com/forum
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