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Forgive me for asking a basic question, but how does one use AutoIt to move a window created by another application?  Ihave a game that runs and the game window is always half off the screen, and I would like to fix that using Auto It.  Also, I would like to be about to move and resize File Explorer windows I have under Windows 8 (in Windows 8, if you resize a File Explorer window, it resizes all File Explorer windows to that size).

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Take Care,

Bob

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BobMandel,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum. :)

You appear to have missed the Forum rules on your way in. Please read them now (there is also a link at bottom right of each page) - particularly the bit about not discussing game interaction. Although you do explain that you want to move other GUIs as well, asking about moving the game GUI is getting perilously close to the limits and I would not want you to get into anything more complicated later on. ;)

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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Dear MilesAhead,

Thanks SO much!  I will try this tonight....

Can you possibly help with my only other need, wanting to play a music file behind an application?  I have a command-line music player, but using a Windows batch file (not AutoIt) it waits until the music is done playing before running the application....

Thanks again for everything!

Take Care,

Bob

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double posting is also frowned upon

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