Not sure why @SW_HIDE isn't working

[PartyPooper]

I'm using the following code to screen cap the foreground window but for some reason I can't seem to hide the Save As dialog box using the WinSetSate function. Anyone have a better way of doing this?

Func OnScreenCap()
    GUISetCursor(1, 1)
    WinActivate($WindowTitle)
    Send("!{PRINTSCREEN}")
    Run("mspaint.exe", "", @SW_HIDE)
    WinWait("untitled - Paint")
    Sleep(500)
    ControlSend("untitled - Paint", "", "", "^v")
    Sleep(500)
    ControlSend("untitled - Paint", "", "", "^s")
    WinWait("Save As", "")
    WinSetState("Save As", "", @SW_HIDE)
    Sleep(500)
    ControlSend("Save As", "", "Edit1", @ScriptDir & "\Screenshots\" & @YEAR & "-" & @MON & "-" & @MDAY & "_" & @HOUR & @MIN & "-" & @SEC & ".bmp")
    ControlClick("Save As", "", "Button2")
    opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
    WinClose(" - Paint")
    GUISetCursor(2, 0)
EndFunc

Thanks.

[Nuffilein805]

maybe you should try

winsettrans("Save As", "", 0)

to make your window invisible

worked as i tried it out

[PartyPooper]

Thanks Nuffilein805.

It worked here too so I'll use it. Still would've liked to know why WinSetState didn't work. Maybe it has something to do with child windows?

[LxP]

It worked here too so I'll use it. Still would've liked to know why WinSetState didn't work. Maybe it has something to do with child windows?

Odd... I use it on file dialogues without any trouble; in fact I tried that part of your code with Paint and all was well.

[Nuffilein805]

does his code work at your pc?

it doesn't work on my pc either

that's the reason i made the invisible-stuff

[LxP]

does his code work at your pc?

Yep, it works without any major problems. My Paint toolbars are detached from the main window so they appear while the Paint window is hidden, but I don't think that's important enough to accommodate.

[PartyPooper]

I've also had to modify the code slightly by adding Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 1) because my main gui window kept disappearing (only left with a task bar icon) once the routine returned if I left Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) active. My code now works fine with:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
    WinClose(" - Paint")
    Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 1)

Took me hours to track it down because I thought the problem was in another part of my code. Not sure if this is a bug or how things are supposed to work.