Window help...

[lopolop]

well here is my problem im trying to make a simple autoit program to fix my Music problem, Foobar not sure if you've heard of it is an awesome free music well.. player i can customize it to my likening and its pretty simple... can get complicated, anyways i have a separate 3rd party program that works with it called MiniLyrics which simply displays the lyrics of the song im playing. My problem is it doesn't support Foobar minimizing and maximizing so when i minimize foobar minlyrics stays up(all ways on top) and is annoying since i have to right click to minimize.. I got half of this working..

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

while 1
    sleep(300)
    
    If WinActive("foobar") == 1 Then
            If WinExists("MiniLyrics") == 1 Then
                sleep(1000)
            Else
                WinSetState("MiniLyrics", "", @SW_SHOW)
                WinActivate("foobar")
            EndIf
    Else
        If WinExists("MiniLyrics") == 1 Then
            WinSetState("MiniLyrics", "", @SW_HIDE)
        Else
            sleep(1000)
        EndIf
    EndIf
WEnd

when i minimize it Hides Minilyrics but when i maximize or return focus it wont bring it back up... i see what the problem is because after hiding minilyrics it Always "Exists" and never thinks it has to show it. I cant think of another way to do this. and i am unable to close/restart Minilyrics becuase it doesnt work when i do that i need to exit out of foobar again which isnt worth it..

So any help would be great!

[Björn Kaiser]

maybe WinGetState is a better option than WinExist...

[lopolop]

ok it worked thanks alot!

[SubJunk]

I have the same problem with MiniLyrics but it happens with iTunes. This doesn't work though... lopolop could you please post the script that ended up working for you please? It has been a bug in MiniLyrics for a while now and I'm getting sick of it.

I tried using this:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

while 1
    sleep(300)
   
    If WinActive("iTunes") == 1 Then
            If WinGetState("MiniLyrics 5.6.3363 for iTunes") == 1 Then
                sleep(1000)
            Else
                WinSetState("MiniLyrics 5.6.3363 for iTunes", "", @SW_SHOW)
                WinActivate("iTunes")
            EndIf
    Else
        If WinGetState("MiniLyrics 5.6.3363 for iTunes") == 1 Then
            WinSetState("MiniLyrics 5.6.3363 for iTunes", "", @SW_HIDE)
        Else
            sleep(1000)
        EndIf
    EndIf
WEnd

but it doesn't work.