Get Gui ONTOP State?

[ZetupEXE]

Hi there,

i am just on step ahead to finish my little project, but now i am struggling for two weeks now with a annoying problem.

So i hope you guys can help me out a last time?!

The description of my problem is quite short:

How can i find out whether my GUI is over all other Windows?

i would like to thank all of you for your great help.

cu..

Zetup-EXE

[martin]

Hi there,

i am just on step ahead to finish my little project, but now i am struggling for two weeks now with a annoying problem.

So i hope you guys can help me out a last time?!

The description of my problem is quite short:

How can i find out whether my GUI is over all other Windows?

i would like to thank all of you for your great help.

cu..

Zetup-EXE

The position of a window is given by its Z-order. The easiest way I know of with Autoit is the use WinList function. The first window in the list is the topmost window (Same as the order of applications shown when you press Alt TAB). So if your window is the first in the list of visible windows it's on top of all others. Edited November 21, 2010 by martin

[ZetupEXE]

@martin: thanks for your tip. u'r tip solved my problem and so my project finished as version 1.0

i did the following to get the "guiontop"-state:

If WinGetTitle($osName) = WinGetTitle("[active]") Then

....

EndIf

thx.

Zetup-EXE

[KaFu]

Topmost property is defined by the ExStyle $WS_EX_TOPMOST and can be determined with _WinAPI_GetWindowLong().

#include <Constants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My TOPMOST GUI #1", Default, Default, Default, Default, Default, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

$hwnd = GUICreate("My TOPMOST GUI #2")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
WinSetOnTop($hwnd,"",1)

$var = WinList()
For $i = 1 To $var[0][0]
    ; Only display visble windows that have a title
    If $var[$i][0] <> "" And IsVisible($var[$i][1]) Then
        ConsoleWrite("Title=" & $var[$i][0] & @TAB & "Handle=" & $var[$i][1] & @TAB & "IsTopmost=" & BitAND(_WinAPI_GetWindowLong($var[$i][1], $GWL_EXSTYLE), $WS_EX_TOPMOST) & @CRLF)
    EndIf
Next

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()

    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
WEnd
GUIDelete()

Func IsVisible($handle)
    If BitAND(WinGetState($handle), 2) Then
        Return 1
    Else
        Return 0
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>IsVisible

Edit: Added WinSetOnTop() example.

Edited November 24, 2010 by KaFu

[martin]

Topmost property is defined by the ExStyle $WS_EX_TOPMOST and can be determined with _WinAPI_GetWindowLong().

#include <Constants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My TOPMOST GUI #1", Default, Default, Default, Default, Default, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

$hwnd = GUICreate("My TOPMOST GUI #2")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
WinSetOnTop($hwnd,"",1)

$var = WinList()
For $i = 1 To $var[0][0]
    ; Only display visble windows that have a title
    If $var[$i][0] <> "" And IsVisible($var[$i][1]) Then
        ConsoleWrite("Title=" & $var[$i][0] & @TAB & "Handle=" & $var[$i][1] & @TAB & "IsTopmost=" & BitAND(_WinAPI_GetWindowLong($var[$i][1], $GWL_EXSTYLE), $WS_EX_TOPMOST) & @CRLF)
    EndIf
Next

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()

    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
WEnd
GUIDelete()

Func IsVisible($handle)
    If BitAND(WinGetState($handle), 2) Then
        Return 1
    Else
        Return 0
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>IsVisible

Edit: Added WinSetOnTop() example.

That doesn't tell you which window is on top of all others though.