Window always on bottom?

[JohnnyThrash]

Of course there if a way to have your gui always stay on top of all other windows, but what about behind all other windows?

I'm currently using the following code:

While 1
    if WinActive($Desktop) Then
        _WinAPI_SetWindowPos($Desktop, $HWND_BOTTOM, 0, 0, @DesktopWidth, @DesktopHeight, $SWP_NOACTIVATE)
    Endif
WEnd

The problem is this requires the window to first be active before setting it to the bottom. So when the window gains focus after not having focus it will flicker on top of all other windows (normal behavoir) and then go to the back as it's told to do.

Is there a way to do this so that I can avoid flickering and just continously have my window on the bottom?

Edit: Also let it be known that even without checking to see if the window is active it still flickers

Edited March 15, 2010 by JohnnyThrash

[l3ill]

Have your tried:

WinSetState("your window", "" @SW_HIDE

?

[martin]

Of course there if a way to have your gui always stay on top of all other windows, but what about behind all other windows?

I'm currently using the following code:

While 1
    if WinActive($Desktop) Then
        _WinAPI_SetWindowPos($Desktop, $HWND_BOTTOM, 0, 0, @DesktopWidth, @DesktopHeight, $SWP_NOACTIVATE)
    Endif
WEnd

The problem is this requires the window to first be active before setting it to the bottom. So when the window gains focus after not having focus it will flicker on top of all other windows (normal behavoir) and then go to the back as it's told to do.

Is there a way to do this so that I can avoid flickering and just continously have my window on the bottom?

Edit: Also let it be known that even without checking to see if the window is active it still flickers

Searching found this which works well for me. Just comment out the last line to see the effect.

[JohnnyThrash]

Searching found this which works well for me. Just comment out the last line to see the effect.

Thanks so much martin, you have no idea how helpful that is to me. I can't believe I couldn't find that before. Thanks alot!