JAFN Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I know I did this before. But I can not find in help, find in old code nor remember. I have a program with a tiny window. Some times I have up to four instances of it running. I do not want the windows from cluttering up the task bar. How do I accomplish this? [size="2"]The second mouse gets the cheese[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartee Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 hi, Set the GUI's style to be $WS_EX_TOOLwindow. Here's a quick example:#include <ButtonConstants.au3> #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form= $Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 191, 83, 265, 153) $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("show in taskbar", 3, 3, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) $Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("dont show in taskbar", 3, 42, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) #EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ### $defStyle=GUIGetStyle() While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Exit Case $Button1 GUISetState(@SW_HIDE) GUISetStyle(-1,$defStyle[1]) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) Case $Button2 GUISetState(@SW_HIDE) GUISetStyle(-1,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) EndSwitch WEnd Hope this helps, -smartee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAFN Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 I couldn't get that to do what I wanted. And the example doesn't use that which confuses me. But it did get me thinking where I should be looking, and I found what I had done before. Thank you. I still can't get over how fast you guys are. One more question. GuiSetState sets a value, but is there something to function like GUIGetState? [size="2"]The second mouse gets the cheese[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartee Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 hi, the example doesn't use that which confuses meThe example does use the $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW property, don't you see this line GUISetStyle(-1,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) Maybe a simpler example would clear things up: #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> $Form1 = GUICreate("Not in taskbar", 200, 100, -1, -1, -1, $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Exit EndSwitch WEnd Try using WinGetState() to get the GUI's state. Hope this clears some thing up -smartee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAFN Posted May 20, 2011 Author Share Posted May 20, 2011 The eyes aren't what they use to be (and they weren't that good then) Sorry. That is many characters shorter than my method. And thanks for the pointer, off to look at it now. [size="2"]The second mouse gets the cheese[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guinness Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 (edited) Or you could make the Main GUI as a child to AutoItWinGetTitle() (a Hidden Window) and then you'll have a normal looking GUI instead of the $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW style. It will minimise to the top of the Taskbar. GUICreate("Using AutoItWinGetTitle()", 200, 100, -1, -1, -1, -1, WinGetHandle(AutoItWinGetTitle())) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) While 1 Switch GUIGetMsg() Case -3 Exit EndSwitch WEnd Edited May 20, 2011 by guinness UDF List:  _AdapterConnections() • _AlwaysRun() • _AppMon() • _AppMonEx() • _ArrayFilter/_ArrayReduce • _BinaryBin() • _CheckMsgBox() • _CmdLineRaw() • _ContextMenu() • _ConvertLHWebColor()/_ConvertSHWebColor() • _DesktopDimensions() • _DisplayPassword() • _DotNet_Load()/_DotNet_Unload() • _Fibonacci() • _FileCompare() • _FileCompareContents() • _FileNameByHandle() • _FilePrefix/SRE() • _FindInFile() • _GetBackgroundColor()/_SetBackgroundColor() • _GetConrolID() • _GetCtrlClass() • _GetDirectoryFormat() • _GetDriveMediaType() • _GetFilename()/_GetFilenameExt() • _GetHardwareID() • _GetIP() • _GetIP_Country() • _GetOSLanguage() • _GetSavedSource() • _GetStringSize() • _GetSystemPaths() • _GetURLImage() • _GIFImage() • _GoogleWeather() • _GUICtrlCreateGroup() • _GUICtrlListBox_CreateArray() • _GUICtrlListView_CreateArray() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveCSV() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveHTML() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveTxt() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveXML() • _GUICtrlMenu_Recent() • _GUICtrlMenu_SetItemImage() • _GUICtrlTreeView_CreateArray() • _GUIDisable() • _GUIImageList_SetIconFromHandle() • _GUIRegisterMsg() • _GUISetIcon() • _Icon_Clear()/_Icon_Set() • _IdleTime() • _InetGet() • _InetGetGUI() • _InetGetProgress() • _IPDetails() • _IsFileOlder() • _IsGUID() • _IsHex() • _IsPalindrome() • _IsRegKey() • _IsStringRegExp() • _IsSystemDrive() • _IsUPX() • _IsValidType() • _IsWebColor() • _Language() • _Log() • _MicrosoftInternetConnectivity() • _MSDNDataType() • _PathFull/GetRelative/Split() • _PathSplitEx() • _PrintFromArray() • _ProgressSetMarquee() • _ReDim() • _RockPaperScissors()/_RockPaperScissorsLizardSpock() • _ScrollingCredits • _SelfDelete() • _SelfRename() • _SelfUpdate() • _SendTo() • _ShellAll() • _ShellFile() • _ShellFolder() • _SingletonHWID() • _SingletonPID() • _Startup() • _StringCompact() • _StringIsValid() • _StringRegExpMetaCharacters() • _StringReplaceWholeWord() • _StringStripChars() • _Temperature() • _TrialPeriod() • _UKToUSDate()/_USToUKDate() • _WinAPI_Create_CTL_CODE() • _WinAPI_CreateGUID() • _WMIDateStringToDate()/_DateToWMIDateString() • Au3 script parsing • AutoIt Search • AutoIt3 Portable • AutoIt3WrapperToPragma • AutoItWinGetTitle()/AutoItWinSetTitle() • Coding • DirToHTML5 • FileInstallr • FileReadLastChars() • GeoIP database • GUI - Only Close Button • GUI Examples • GUICtrlDeleteImage() • GUICtrlGetBkColor() • GUICtrlGetStyle() • GUIEvents • GUIGetBkColor() • Int_Parse() & Int_TryParse() • IsISBN() • LockFile() • Mapping CtrlIDs • OOP in AutoIt • ParseHeadersToSciTE() • PasswordValid • PasteBin • Posts Per Day • PreExpand • Protect Globals • Queue() • Resource Update • ResourcesEx • SciTE Jump • Settings INI • SHELLHOOK • Shunting-Yard • Signature Creator • Stack() • Stopwatch() • StringAddLF()/StringStripLF() • StringEOLToCRLF() • VSCROLL • WM_COPYDATA • More Examples... Updated: 22/04/2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMS Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 (edited) owww nice this post just what i needed but maybe a little more difficult (for me anyway ) I'm making a GUI whit a hidden help GUI. In the futher i'm making more GUI's from one father GUI..... Is it possible to make a child GUI or a father GUI disapere from the taskbar but not from the notification area? This because i'm making a script whit a nice little icon in the notification area (this is a script i'm making whit what i've learned here in the forum from many poeple ) I'treid to put the $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW into this script but it's making a lot of windows do i do something wrong? Could someone help me whit this? expandcollapse popup#AutoIt3Wrapper_Au3Check_Parameters=-d -w 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 5 -w 6 #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #Include <Animate.au3> ;$GUI = GUICreate("Test", 615, 438, -1, -1) $GUI = GUICreate("Test", 615, 438, -1, -1, BitOR($GUI_SS_DEFAULT_GUI,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_THICKFRAME)) $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Hide father GUI", 3, 3, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) $Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Hide child GUI", 3, 42, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) $Button3 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Hide father and child GUI", 3, 81, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) $ContextMenu = GuiCtrlCreateContextMenu() $SubMenu = GuiCtrlCreateMenu("SubMenu", $ContextMenu) $SubMenuItem = GuiCtrlCreateMenuItem("SubMenu Help", $SubMenu) $HelpItem = GuiCtrlCreateMenuItem("Help", $ContextMenu) $defStyle=GUIGetStyle() GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1) Global $GuiMsg Global $Show = False Global $HelpGUI = GUICreate("Help Gui", 500, 200) HotKeySet("^z", "ShowHelpGUI") _Animate_LoadFromFile(@ScriptDir & '\Images\flag.png') _Animate_SetDelay(80) _Animate_ShowIcon() _Animate_Start() While 1 $GuiMsg = GuiGetMsg() Select Case $GuiMsg = $HelpItem ShowHelpGUI() Case $GuiMsg = $SubMenuItem MsgBox(0, "test", "You pressed the 'Help' item in the sub context menu") Case $GuiMsg = $Gui_Event_Close Exit Case $Button1 GUISetState(@SW_HIDE) GUISetStyle(-1,$defStyle[1]) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) Case $Button2 GUISetState(@SW_HIDE) GUISetStyle(-1,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) EndSelect WEnd Func ShowHelpGUI() $Show = Not $Show GUISetState($Show, $HelpGui) EndFunc Edited May 20, 2011 by FMS as finishing touch god created the dutch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmet Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 The lines Case $Button1 ; Case $Button2 ; should be Case $GuiMsg=$Button1 ; Case $GuiMs=$Button2 ; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMS Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Thnx that did indeed the trick for hiding and unhiding the windows but now the second problem,... how can i change the focus to which window? 1 button for the child 1 for the father 1 for both ???? or isn't that possible and shout i look for another way? I realy whish this because it's clutering mine taskbar whit a lot of windows in this way:D what i have at this point is expandcollapse popup;#AutoIt3Wrapper_Au3Check_Parameters=-d -w 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 5 -w 6 #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #Include <Animate.au3> ;$GUI = GUICreate("Test", 615, 438, -1, -1) $GUI = GUICreate("Test", 615, 438, -1, -1);, BitOR($GUI_SS_DEFAULT_GUI,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_THICKFRAME)) $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Hide father GUI", 3, 3, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) $Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Hide child GUI", 3, 42, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) $Button3 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Hide father and child GUI", 3, 81, 184, 37, $WS_GROUP) $ContextMenu = GuiCtrlCreateContextMenu() $SubMenu = GuiCtrlCreateMenu("SubMenu", $ContextMenu) $SubMenuItem = GuiCtrlCreateMenuItem("SubMenu Help", $SubMenu) $HelpItem = GuiCtrlCreateMenuItem("Help", $ContextMenu) $defStyle=GUIGetStyle() GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1) Global $GuiMsg Global $Show = False Global $HelpGUI = GUICreate("Help Gui", 500, 200) HotKeySet("^z", "ShowHelpGUI") _Animate_LoadFromFile(@ScriptDir & '\Images\flag.png') _Animate_SetDelay(80) _Animate_ShowIcon() _Animate_Start() While 1 $GuiMsg = GuiGetMsg() Select Case $GuiMsg = $HelpItem ShowHelpGUI() Case $GuiMsg = $SubMenuItem MsgBox(0, "test", "You pressed the 'Help' item in the sub context menu") Case $GuiMsg = $Gui_Event_Close Exit Case $GuiMsg=$Button1 GUISetState(@SW_HIDE) GUISetStyle(-1,$defStyle[1]) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) Case $GuiMsg=$Button2 GUISetState(@SW_HIDE) GUISetStyle(-1,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) Case $GuiMsg=$Button3 GUISetState(@SW_HIDE) GUISetStyle(-1,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) EndSelect WEnd Func ShowHelpGUI() $Show = Not $Show GUISetState($Show, $HelpGui) EndFunc as finishing touch god created the dutch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmet Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Maybe you should start new thread and I don't understand your question well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMS Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 thats a good ID i'll do thnx anyway as finishing touch god created the dutch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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