Find min and max size of a windows

[akorx]

Hi,

Sometimes a windows has a max size fixed by the developers; a user can resize it with the mousse... Is there a way with autoit to resize (= to restore) this windows at her "normal" size (this "normal" size is the defaut size when we start the program).

[Xenobiologist]

Have alook at Win... functions e.g. WinMove.

[akorx]

I know WinMove() but this function resize the program with my choices but not with her original size... I think something like WinSetState($hWnd, "", @SW_SHOWNORMAL) could be a solution but I doesn't work.

Is there another way with a windows function (or another autoit function that I've not seen) ?

Edited February 26, 2015 by akorx

[akorx]

Should I ask autoit's developers to add something like @SW_RESET to do this?

[iamtheky]

no, just capture the values and then use winmove.  

This demo will open notepad, capture the original size with wingetpos, reshape it, then put it back using the array from wingetpos.

opt("WinTitleMatchMode" , 2)

ShellExecute("notepad.exe")

sleep(1000)

$hWindow = WinGetHandle("Notepad")

$aOriginalSize = WinGetPos($hWindow)

winmove($hWindow , "" , 160 , 200 , 340  , 400)

sleep (2000)

winmove($hWindow , "" , $aOriginalSize[0] , $aOriginalSize[1] , $aOriginalSize[2] , $aOriginalSize[3])

sleep (2000)

processclose("notepad.exe")

Edited February 26, 2015 by boththose

[akorx]

The problem is that I can't capture the original size because my script doesn't run when the other program starts...

[iamtheky]

Unless defaults are hard coded somewhere readable like a settings file or the registry I think you will have to use magic. 

[akorx]

"magic" ? what is it?

[TheSaint]

I'm guessing you've tried the other WinSetState options, like @SW_RESTORE and @SW_MAXIMIZE

They should work if the resizing mechanism is correctly specified, else you are probably out of luck.

Can you make the window bigger than it is supposed to be?

If not, then you could loop through resizing (WinMove) and checking (WinGetPos) until it stops changing size.

You could then store the final value for future use, to avoid the loop method again.

[iamtheky]

So far I have gathered that you want to start a process that retrieves historical application-specific information that is probably not logged. That requires you to be a wizard.  Unless of course there is anywhere you can go manually to see the default coordinates and size and then we can try and go read that.

Edited February 26, 2015 by boththose