Hidden Windows in Windows 10

[s0urce]

Hello folks,

I try to set the window state of 3th party windows (win32 gui) to "@SW_HIDE". This seems not to work properly in windows 10. The window is hidden, but it is still visible in the windows bar. If I click on it, nothing happens. Thx for some infos.

Br, s0urce

[AutoBert]

What's the Windows bar, the Windows taskbar, the Titlebar from window?  What's the name from 3th paty app?

Thx for more infos.

 

 

Edited April 12, 2016 by AutoBert

[s0urce]

Yeah, the Windows taskbar. The app is an selfwritten one. Delphi compile to exe.

[AutoBert]

You hided the wrong window. Delphi uses a Form for Project, and the hided one is the Child of this Project.

[s0urce]

3 hours ago, AutoBert said:

You hided the wrong window. Delphi uses a Form for Project, and the hided one is the Child of this Project.

Oh, good to know, thank you very much. Do you maybe have a solution to hide the parent "process"? I found this option "_WinAPI_GetParentProcess(WinGetProcess($title))" to get a parent process, but I found no way to hide a window with it's pid.

[AutoBert]

_WinAPI_GetWindowLong($hWnd3thParty, $GWL_HWNDPARENT) should help. It returns the needed WindowHandle from Parentwindow. 

[s0urce]

Thank you AutoBert, this was the solution. Here is my ready function, maybe someone else looking for this:

#include <WinAPI.au3>

func _WinAndParentSetState($title,$state)
  $childHandle=WinGetHandle($title)
  $parentLong=_WinAPI_GetWindowLong($childHandle,$GWL_HWNDPARENT)
  $parentHandle=HWnd($parentLong)
  WinSetState($parentHandle,'',$state)
  WinSetState($childHandle,'',$state)
endfunc

Edited April 13, 2016 by s0urce