MInimize/Maximize Multiple windows

[HighlanderSword]

Helllo,

 

I'm currently converting a script fro Auto Hotkey over to Autoit.

The script opens over 30 Windows for Unix Sessions.

In AHK there is an option to group the screens together in a group and 

then execute the Maximize and Minimize in one pass ( users only sees one screen Maximize, then Minimize)  

AHk CODE 

GroupAdd("TeraTerm", WinTitle:="ahk_class VTWin32", WinText:="", ExcludeTitle:="", ExcludeText:="")

WinMaximize(WinTitle:="ahk_group TeraTerm")
WinMinimize(WinTitle:="ahk_group TeraTerm")

When attempting to do this in AutoIT , the user sees each screen maximize and then minimize using the code below 

#include <Array.au3>

$winstuff =WinList("[CLASS:VTWin32]")

for $loopme = 1 to ubound($winstuff) -1

WinSetState ( $winstuff[$loopme][0],"",@SW_MAXIMIZE)
WinSetState ( $winstuff[$loopme][0],"",@SW_MINIMIZE)

next

Is there a cleaner way to do this like it works in AHK ?

[Jos]

21 minutes ago, HighlanderSword said:

Is there a cleaner way to do this like it works in AHK ?

Talking about a "loaded question" .  

It would help when you explain what exactly you want the code to do because referring to another language doesn't help much and I honestly do not understand what behaviour you want.

Jos

Edited May 23, 2019 by Jos

[HighlanderSword]

When using the code below 

#include <Array.au3>

$winstuff =WinList("[CLASS:VTWin32]")

for $loopme = 1 to ubound($winstuff) -1

WinSetState ( $winstuff[$loopme][0],"",@SW_MAXIMIZE)
WinSetState ( $winstuff[$loopme][0],"",@SW_MINIMIZE)

next

It goes through each window found that matches the criteria and then does the maximize and minimize.

 

So the process is extremely slow  as it is doing one window at a time.

I'm looking for a way to bulk maximize and minimize over 30 screen at the same time

Hope that help explain it 

[BrewManNH]

GroupAdd is just an array or list of windows added to a group as far as I can tell from reading its description. It's faster because it's being run internally in AHK and you have to run it externally in AutoIt (externally meaning interpreted code). There's nothing similar in AutoIt.

Feel free to open a tracker ticket to ask to have something similar added though.

[Nine]

Maybe this.  Untested but it looks like it would be way faster this way...

Edit : tested and it works great on a few windows !

Edited May 23, 2019 by Nine

[BrewManNH]

AutoIt has the _WinAPI_ShowWindow function, which looks like it could easily be used to use ShowWindowAsync instead if needed by modifying the UDF.

[Nine]

23 minutes ago, BrewManNH said:

AutoIt has the _WinAPI_ShowWindow function, which looks like it could easily be used to use ShowWindowAsync instead if needed by modifying the UDF.

If he needs the fastest solution, I wouldn't recommend using this function, because it will reopen the dll for each window.  Since it is really just a one liner, I would suggest to open the dll before the loop and using the dll handle afterward.

[BrewManNH]

17 minutes ago, Nine said:

because it will reopen the dll for each window

Good point.