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[Solved] Force a GUI to appear behind everything else (the opposite of "$WS_EX_TOPMOST")


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Greetings,

I was just wondering if there is a way to force a GUI appear under everything else (what I want would be the opposite of "$WS_EX_TOPMOST").
In fact, I want to create a $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW GUI that would stay stuck to the Desktop under everything.

Thanks in advance for any kind of help/hint.

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I'm not familiar enough with C#, but I think this could be done with a Dll call... take a look at this StackOverflow answer to get started maybe?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/527950/how-to-make-always-on-bottom-window

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13 hours ago, nend said:

I use this befor, it's not perfect but I never find anything better.

_WinAPI_SetWindowPos($Gui, $HWND_BOTTOM, Default, Default, Default, Default, $SWP_NOMOVE)

 

Thanks for your reply @nend but when I use this, my GUI does not show up.. Tried some other flags inside the function but I still have the same result..
(Maybe this doesn't work on Win10)

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12 minutes ago, Nine said:

Tested on win7 and win10 and it is working fine with this :

_WinAPI_SetWindowPos($hWnd, $HWND_BOTTOM, 0, 0, 0, 0, BitOR($SWP_FRAMECHANGED, $SWP_NOMOVE, $SWP_NOSIZE))

 

Where do you put this code? It doesn't work for me, but I run it once after creating the GUI. Do you repeat the code on some event?

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Weird. And it stays under other windows? When I click on the taskbar, it gets activated. I thought that it was supposed to stay under other windows even when activated or something. I must've misunderstood the question :)

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