GUITaskbarEntry

[SlimShady]

Did you remove AutoItSetOption("GUITaskbarEntry") ?

Because when I use it in my script, AutoIt says:

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AutoIt Error

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Line 34  (File "C:\scripts\Gui\Test.au3"):

AutoItSetOption("GUITaskbarEntry", 1)

Error: Unknown option or bad parameter specified.

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OK 

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The option is still in the helpfile, so I assumed it works.

Guess not

[SlimShady]

Can you tell me what's going on?

[Jon]

Can you tell me what's going on?

You can now have multiple windows with multiple entries in the task bar, therefore a minimize to taskbar option made no sense (which window, which task, which icon, multiple tray icons, single icon? tray menus?). So we are thinking about it to see if there is any sensible variation.

[SlimShady]

Allright I understand. Meanwhile I managed to find a workaround:

- Create a main window

- Create a second window and make it a child window of the 1st

- leave the main window hidden

- show the child window

[Holger]

Here is a small example:

#include "GUIConstants.au3"

$parentgui = GUICreate("Parent",400,300)

$childgui = GUICreate("Child",340,120,-1,-1,BitOr($WS_POPUP,$WS_CAPTION,$WS_SYSMENU),-1,$parentgui)

GUISwitch($childgui)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
   $msg = GUIGetMsg(1)

   $ctrlmsg = $msg[0]
   $win = $msg[1]
   $posx = $msg[3]
   $posy = $msg[4]
   
   Select
      Case $ctrlmsg = -3 And $win = $parentgui
         ExitLoop
      Case $ctrlmsg = -3 And $win = $childgui
         GUISetState(@SW_HIDE)
         GUISwitch($parentgui)
         GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
   EndSelect
WEnd

GUIDelete()

Exit

Hope, this helps a little bit.

So long...

Holger

Edited October 2, 2004 by Holger

[Jon]

Here is a small example:

#include "GUIConstants.au3"

$parentgui = GUICreate("Parent",400,300)

$childgui = GUICreate("Child",340,120,-1,-1,BitOr($WS_POPUP,$WS_CAPTION,$WS_SYSMENU),-1,$parentgui)

GUISwitch($childgui)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg(1)

    $ctrlmsg = $msg[0]
    $win = $msg[1]
    $posx = $msg[3]
    $posy = $msg[4]
   
    Select
        Case $ctrlmsg = -3 And $win = $parentgui
            ExitLoop
        Case $ctrlmsg = -3 And $win = $childgui
            GUISetState(@SW_HIDE)
            GUISwitch($parentgui)
            GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
    EndSelect
WEnd

GUIDelete()

Exit

Hope, this helps a little bit.

So long...

Holger

Case $ctrlmsg = -3

should be:

Case $ctrlmsg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

[Holger]

Alright, did forgot that you talk about this a few days ago :">

Thanks