Process closing and reopening

[PDowning]

This should be a relatively simple answer, I think. 

We have  an Explorer window that opens to a specific directory on the server so users can acees the programs and scripts that are there. That explorer window opens with the "/e /root" options so they can't go up the directory chain.  One problem though, they can still close the window by clicking the very friendly. big, red X in the upper corner.

I was thinking I could make a script that runs in the background, that sits there and watches to make sure the explorer window is running. If it detects that the window was closed, it automatically opens the window again. Therefore, the users can't get rid of it.

I can think of a couple reasons why this would be difficult, one being that under Win7, there is no Window title to use as a reference to watch for to see if it closes. Also, this window's PID will be different on each machine, so I can't watch it that way.

Feasible?

[guinness]

Yeah!

You will need to look at WinAPIEx by Yashied and these functions: ProcessList('explorer.exe'), _WinAPI_GetProcessCommandLine, _WinAPI_EnumProcessWindows and then depending on how creative you want to be, instead of doing this in a loop, you could monitor when Windows sends a HSHELL_WINDOWDESTROYED message to all processes. If you don't want to get that tricky, then use AdLibRegister for now.

[PDowning]

Wow. That sounds ..... confusing and technically deep   .  But I'll look at it.

For those of you that have used Zenworks and the app launcher for it, we need a Windows replacement. Thus trying to create a simulated launcher with the explorer window.

Has anyone found a viable solution for an application launcher?

Edit to add:  where is this winAPI thingy?

Edit 2:  Nvm .. found it.

Edit 3:  Nvm the NVM :-)  The thread '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> has links, but appear to be dead. They only point to .html files and not the actual zips

Edited July 1, 2013 by PDowning

[guinness]

WinAPIEx - '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

I can help if you post some code of what you've tried. Does that seem fair? I think it does.

Edited July 1, 2013 by guinness

[BrewManNH]

 

I can think of a couple reasons why this would be difficult, one being that under Win7, there is no Window title to use as a reference to watch for to see if it closes. Also, this window's PID will be different on each machine, so I can't watch it that way.

You would be wrong about this. The windows still have titles, just because they don't display the title doesn't mean it doesn't have one. A simple check with Au3Info would have told you this.

[guinness]

For WinAPIEx, you can download the beta as well. I forgot to mention WinGetTitle as BrewManNH mentioned about the title.

[PDowning]

WinAPIEx - '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

I can help if you post some code of what you've tried. Does that seem fair? I think it does.

 

Yeh that's fair. But I got get this UDF first. The links in there go nowhere or out filter is blocking it for some reason......

Edit:  ROFL! His link is being blocked as "pornography" by our filter. Geez.   Could someone just email it to me? IM me and I'll give ya my email.

Edited July 1, 2013 by PDowning

[PDowning]

You would be wrong about this. The windows still have titles, just because they don't display the title doesn't mean it doesn't have one. A simple check with Au3Info would have told you this.

 

Good, I'll admit I didn't know that.  And I'm still learning around here, so I either don't know or forget about some utilities or UDF's or something that would benefit me.

[guinness]

Why not wait until you get home? Or ask your Admin to unblock this.

[DW1]

If you simply want to get rid of the 'X'

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
Run(@WindowsDir & '\explorer.exe /e,/root,"C:\Scripts\"')
$hWnd = WinWait('[TITLE:C:\Scripts; CLASS:CabinetWClass]')
_WinAPI_SetWindowLong($hWnd, $GWL_STYLE, $WS_POPUPWINDOW)
_WinAPI_ShowWindow($hWnd)

 

An alt-F4 will still close the window though

[PDowning]

Why not wait until you get home? Or ask your Admin to unblock this.

 

Edit: Statements retracted. Let my emotion and stress get ahead of me. I apologize to anyone that read it before I edited.

Now, to be calm about this.  One, I leave work at work. I don't think about it till I get here the next day. Two, the admin doesn't unblock anything until the CTO tells him to.  And for three, the link is dead. 404 error page when I attempted via remote to my home pc.

Edited July 1, 2013 by PDowning

[DW1]

Edit: Statements retracted. Let my emotion and stress get ahead of me. I apologize to anyone that read it before I edited.

Now, to be calm about this.  One, I leave work at work. I don't think about it till I get here the next day. Two, the admin doesn't unblock anything until the CTO tells him to.  And for three, the link is dead. 404 error page when I attempted via remote to my home pc.

I also get a 404.  I also got to read your rant before you edited it

Did the snippet I provided not address your OP?

EDIT: The user can still close by alt-F4, taskbar, or context menu with what I provided, so likely a watcher process would be a good way to go.  Better yet, why not code the UI in autoit altogether?  That way you don't have to modify the explorer window at all.

Edited July 1, 2013 by danwilli

[guinness]

Despite your tone, I did say you can get WinAPIEx from the current beta.

Link: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/files/beta/autoit/

I suggest if you want to stay here you maintain a civil tone, as that outburst was totally unjustified in my humble opinion. 

Edited July 1, 2013 by guinness

[PDowning]

I also get a 404.  I also got to read your rant before you edited it

Did the snippet I provided not address your OP?

EDIT: The user can still close by alt-F4, taskbar, or context menu with what I provided, so likely a watcher process would be a good way to go.  Better yet, why not code the UI in autoit altogether?  That way you don't have to modify the explorer window at all.

 

I am attempting to test it, but I can still close the Window via the X.

[PDowning]

Despite your tone, I did say you can get WinAPIEx from the current beta.

Link: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/files/beta/autoit/

I suggest if you want to stay here you maintain a civil tone, as that outburst was totally unjustified in my humble opinion. 

 

You are correct. It was unjustified and I apologized for it. I'm still working my way around here. I did not realize there was a beta section, thank you for pointing it out.

[DW1]

I am attempting to test it, but I can still close the Window via the X.

There should be no X to click if you are implementing that snippet correctly, as it is calling setwindowlong to modify the style of the window to WS_POPUPWINDOW.

Make sure that you are grabbing the right window handle.

[PDowning]

There should be no X to click if you are implementing that snippet correctly, as it is calling setwindowlong to modify the style of the window to WS_POPUPWINDOW.

Make sure that you are grabbing the right window handle.

 

Yep, wrong window handle. That looks really weird not having the top of the window there.    That could work, until someone figures out that Alt-F4 works or closing via the taskbar. Thanks, that helps.