[SOLVED] Prevent GUI disappearance after Win+D (Win10)

[Taskms4]

Greetings,

I didn't want to necro an old post, so I'm starting a new one... 

Like the OP of this post, I'm trying to create a "Tool" GUI (similar to Windows 7 gadgets) and I would need to force the GUI to stay "always up" even when Win + D is pressed.

The solution given on the previous post seems to be working on Win7 but I tried it on Win10 and it does not work..
Any kind of help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance,

--Taskms4

Edited September 2, 2019 by Taskms4
(marked as solved)

[Nine]

How about :

GUICreate ("Test",200,200,-1,-1,$WS_CAPTION+$WS_POPUP,$WS_EX_TOPMOST)

 

[Taskms4]

@Nine Thanks for your reply, I forgot to mention that I don't want my GUI to be "TopMost"

But you're right, the $WS_EX_TOPMOST prevent it to be hidden by Win+D, unfortunately I cannot use it in my case...

Edited September 2, 2019 by Taskms4

[Nine]

Works for me on Win 10 :

Global $hDesktop = WinGetHandle("Program Manager")
Global $hGui = GUICreate("Test", 200, 200, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP+$WS_CAPTION)
_WinAPI_SetWindowLong($hGui, $GWL_HWNDPARENT, $hDesktop)

 

[Taskms4]

Strange.. Where do you place this piece of code in your script?

[Nine]

This works even better for me Win10 + Win7 :

#include <Constants.au3>
#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <WinAPISysWin.au3>

Opt("MustDeclareVars", 1)

Global $hDesktop = WinGetHandle("Program Manager")
Local $aChild = _WinAPI_EnumChildWindows ($hDesktop,False)
; _ArrayDisplay ($aChild)

$hDesktop = $aChild[1][0]

Global $hGui = GUICreate("Test", 200, 200, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP+$WS_CAPTION)
_WinAPI_SetWindowLong($hGui, $GWL_HWNDPARENT, $hDesktop)

GUISetState()

While 1
  Switch GUIGetMsg()
    Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
      ExitLoop

  EndSwitch
WEnd

 

[Taskms4]

@Nine my apologies you were right!

The following code (from the old post) is not working for me:

Global $hDesktop = ControlGetHandle("[CLASS:Progman]", "", "SysListView321")
Global $hGui = GUICreate("Non Minimizable", 500, 500, -1, -1, $WS_MAXIMIZEBOX)
_WinAPI_SetWindowLong($hGui, $GWL_HWNDPARENT, $hDesktop)

But yours works perfectly fine 😮

Global $hDesktop = WinGetHandle("Program Manager")
Global $hGui = GUICreate("Test", 200, 200, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP+$WS_CAPTION)
_WinAPI_SetWindowLong($hGui, $GWL_HWNDPARENT, $hDesktop)

 

Thank you so much!