MS Office 2007/2010 with Coloured 'Active Title Bar' Restored

[RichardL]

Some people find Office-2007 significantly difficult visually because it doesn't have the coloured 'Active Title Bar'.  In Office-2003 the windows had the standard title bar and border which used your colour choices from the screen settings.  In Office-2007 onwards this is missing, and there's only a minimal colour difference when the window gets the focus.

I've been using 2003 so far, but combined with the XP issue I'm being forced to downgrade to W7+Office-2010. (Change to OpenOffice - yes I know, but have to work with 100s of colleagues and customers.)

 

The program below makes a coloured rectangle around the active window.  This almost restores the original function and makes it much easier to focus quickly on the active window.  It needs some of tweaking but already for me has changed Office-2010 from miserable hard work to tolerable.
 

Thanks to UEZ for all the GDI+ examples.

 

- 11-May-2014

- Fixed stupid error so it runs for more than 10 mins.

- Singleton

- Ignore windows with blank titles (some/all of them have excessive dimensions)

 

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#cs

Unresolved/Unfinished:
  - office windows only?
  - not to prevent drag corners to different size
  - top wider than the others, emphasize the title
  - inbox etc. find the highlight, re-emphasize it somehow (transparent overcolour?)
  - customise colour or follow windows?
#ce

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile_type=a3x
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <GDIPlus.au3>
#include <Date.au3>
#include <Misc.au3>

Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1)

Func ConFmtWr($sCntrl, $a = "", $b = "", $c = "", $d = "", $e = "", $f = "", $g = "", $h = "", $i = "", $j = "", $k = "", $l = "")
  #cs
    Combined ConsoleWrite and StringFormat.
    First parameter is the control string, others are values
  #ce
  ConsoleWrite(StringFormat($sCntrl, $a, $b, $c, $d, $e, $f, $g, $h, $i, $j, $k, $l))
EndFunc   ;==>ConFmtWr

Func MsgFail($sArg1 = "", $sArg2 = "")
  Local $sMyName
  Beep(256, 100)
  $sMyName = StringRegExpReplace(@ScriptName, ".au3|.exe", "")
  MsgBox(0, $sMyName, $sArg1 & @CRLF & $sArg2, 10)
EndFunc


#Region Globals
Global $sMyName
Global $hwnd, $graphics, $backbuffer, $bitmap, $Pen, $fontsize_txt1
Global $brush_color, $hFamily1, $hFont1, $hFormat, $tLayout
Global $ScreenDc, $dc, $tSize, $pSize, $tSource, $pSource, $tBlend, $pBlend, $tPoint, $pPoint, $gdibitmap
Global $x1, $x2, $y1

Global $Coord[1], $colr, $name
Global $brush1
Global $brush

Const $max_log_lines = 12
Global $sTitle0
Global $sTitle1
#EndRegion

Func GDI_Open($width = @DesktopWidth + 4, $height = @DesktopHeight)

    $hwnd = GUICreate($sMyName, $width, $height, -4, 0, -1, BitOR($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_TOPMOST))
    _GDIPlus_Startup()
    $graphics   = _GDIPlus_GraphicsCreateFromHWND($hwnd)
    $bitmap     = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateFromGraphics($width, $height, $graphics)
    $backbuffer = _GDIPlus_ImageGetGraphicsContext($bitmap)
    GUISetState(@SW_MAXIMIZE)

    ;$hFormat  = _GDIPlus_StringFormatCreate()
    ;$hFamily1 = _GDIPlus_FontFamilyCreate("Courier New")
    ;$hFont1   = _GDIPlus_FontCreate($hFamily1, $fontsize_txt1, 3)
    ; LAST PAR IS BITSET 0 none, 1 bold, 2 italic, 4 underline
    ; 8 stikethrough
    ;$tLayout = _GDIPlus_RectFCreate(0, 0)
EndFunc

Func Rectangle($iClr, $xcoord, $ycoord, $width, $height, $colour = 0x00FF00)

  ; $iClr: 0 - nothing, 1 clear graphic buffer


  $Pen = _GDIPlus_PenCreate(0, 1)
  If $iClr Then
    ;x_GDIPlus_GraphicsClear($backbuffer)             ;clear buffer - black
    _GDIPlus_GraphicsClear($backbuffer, 0x00000000) ;clear buffer - null colour
  EndIf
  ;$Brush = _GDIPlus_BrushCreateSolid("0xEF" & Hex(255, 2) & Hex(0, 2) & Hex(255, 2))
  ;_GDIPlus_PenSetColor($Pen, "0xFF" & Hex(0, 2) & Hex(255, 2) & Hex(255, 2))


  $Brush = _GDIPlus_BrushCreateSolid("0xEF" & Hex($colour, 6))
  _GDIPlus_PenSetColor($Pen        , "0xFF" & Hex($colour, 6))
  _GDIPlus_PenSetWidth($Pen, 5)

  _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawRect($backbuffer, $xcoord,     $ycoord + 10 , $width, $height,     $Pen)
  _GDIPlus_PenDispose($Pen)
  ;_GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawRect($backbuffer, $xcoord + 1, $ycoord+1, $width-2, $height-2, $Pen)
  ;_GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawRect($backbuffer, $xcoord + 2, $ycoord+2, $width-4, $height-4, $Pen)
  ;_GDIPlus_GraphicsFillRect($backbuffer, $xcoord    , $ycoord  , $width  , $height  , $Brush) ; filled squares
  _GDIPlus_BrushDispose($Brush)
  _GDIPlus_GraphicsDrawImageRect($graphics, $bitmap, 10, 10, $width, $height) ;copy to bitmap
EndFunc

Func SetTransparentBitmap($hGUI, $hImage, $iOpacity = 0xFF)
    Local $hScrDC, $hMemDC, $hBitmap, $hOld, $pSize, $tSize, $pSource, $tSource, $pBlend, $tBlend
    $hScrDC = _WinAPI_GetDC(0)
    $hMemDC = _WinAPI_CreateCompatibleDC($hScrDC)
    $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage)
    $hOld = _WinAPI_SelectObject($hMemDC, $hBitmap)
    $tSize = DllStructCreate($tagSIZE)
    $pSize = DllStructGetPtr($tSize)
    DllStructSetData($tSize, "X", _GDIPlus_ImageGetWidth($hImage))
    DllStructSetData($tSize, "Y", _GDIPlus_ImageGetHeight($hImage))
    $tSource = DllStructCreate($tagPOINT)
    $pSource = DllStructGetPtr($tSource)
    $tBlend = DllStructCreate($tagBLENDFUNCTION)
    $pBlend = DllStructGetPtr($tBlend)
    DllStructSetData($tBlend, "Alpha", $iOpacity)
    DllStructSetData($tBlend, "Format", 1)
    _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindow($hGUI,  $hMemDC, 0, $pSize, $hMemDC, $pSource, 0, $pBlend, $ULW_ALPHA)
    _WinAPI_ReleaseDC(0, $hScrDC)
    _WinAPI_SelectObject($hMemDC, $hOld)
    _WinAPI_DeleteObject($hBitmap)
    _WinAPI_DeleteDC($hMemDC)
EndFunc   ;==>SetTransparentBitmap

#Region Locals
Local $iCnt
Local $iWPos0
Local $iWPos1
Local $bTmp
Local $iCpos
Local $sCtrl
Local $lColr
Local $iWState
Local $bMaxed
#EndRegion

$sMyName = StringRegExpReplace(@ScriptName, ".au3|.exe", "")
If _Singleton($sMyName, 1) = 0 Then
  MsgFail($sMyName, "Already running")
  Exit
EndIf


GDI_Open()

$iCnt = 0
While 1
  $sTitle1 = WinGetTitle("[Active]")
  $iWPos1  = WinGetPos("[Active]")
  $iWState = WinGetState("[Active]")
  $bMaxed  = BitAND($iWState, 32) <> 0

  $bTmp = 0
  If $iCnt = 0 Then
    $bTmp = 1
  Else
    For $iIx = 0 To 3
      If $iWPos1[$iIx] <> $iWPos0[$iIx] Then
        $bTmp = 1
        ExitLoop
      EndIf
    Next
  EndIf

  If $sTitle1 <> $sTitle0 Or $bTmp Then
    ; Window name or size changed
    ConFmtWr("%s:%02d WB %4d %1d   %4d %4d %4d %4d  ~%s~ \n", _Now(), @MSEC/10, $iCnt, $bMaxed, $iWPos1[0], $iWPos1[1], $iWPos1[2], $iWPos1[3], $sTitle1)

    If $sTitle1 <> "" Then
      ; (Blank window title, with stupid window sizes are messing it up.  For the moment we'll just ignore windows with no title.)
    ; Possibly different colour for development
    $lColr = 0xFF0000
    If @Compiled Then
      $lColr = 0xFF0000
    EndIf

    ; Rectangle around current active window
    If $bMaxed Then
      Rectangle(1, 6, -4, @DesktopWidth - 6, $iWPos1[3] - 15, $lColr)
    Else
      Rectangle(1, $iWPos1[0] + 4, $iWPos1[1] -  6, $iWPos1[2] - 04, $iWPos1[3] - 04, $lColr)
      ;            left             top              wid              height
    EndIf
      SetTransparentBitmap($hwnd, $bitmap)
    EndIf
    ConFmtWr("%s:%02d WC\n", _Now(), @MSEC/10)
    $sTitle0 = $sTitle1
    $iWPos0  = $iWPos1
  EndIf
  Sleep(333)
  $iCnt += 1
  ;If $iCnt > 20 And StringInStr($sTitle1, "e\Wind") Then
  ;  Exit
  ;endif
WEnd

 

Edited May 11, 2014 by RichardL