2 Questions: Gui spawned from Gui and disabling that parent Gui

[thepip3r]

Both questions pertain to the same scenario: I'm using a GuiCreate() to spawn a new window for the user to input parameters into the child gui and then when he clicks submit, the spawned gui passes those parameters back to the parent gui.

Question 1:

When the new gui is spawned, it brings up another Taskbar item. My question is when AutoIT form windows are spawned from others, is there a way to suppress the taskbar item from coming up so all of the taskbar items appear as just the main program one?

Question 2:

When that new gui is spawned from it's parent, is there an option I can change so that the parent gui goes to a "disabled" status until the new gui is cancelled or submitted? I'm not looking for code, just a push in the right direction. I examined the GUICreate() params and didn't see one that would afford me this.

TIA

Edited April 18, 2008 by thepip3r

[Ealric]

Both questions pertain to the same scenario: I'm using a GuiCreate() to spawn a new window for the user to input parameters into the child gui and then when he clicks submit, the spawned gui passes those parameters back to the parent gui.

Question 1:

When the new gui is spawned, it brings up another Taskbar item. My question is when AutoIT form windows are spawned from others, is there a way to suppress the taskbar item from coming up so all of the taskbar items appear as just the main program one?

Question 2:

When that new gui is spawned from it's parent, is there an option I can change so that the parent gui goes to a "disabled" status until the new gui is cancelled or submitted? I'm not looking for code, just a push in the right direction. I examined the GUICreate() params and didn't see one that would afford me this.

TIA

Answer 1: Show me some code here so I can see what you are referring to as I cannot guess at how you wrote your child gui.

Answer 2: It depends on the "effect" you want the Parent gui to have. If you use disabled, it's still present but disabled. So, if you have a child gui sitting on top of the parent gui, it may distract from this. I generally like to hide the parent gui and unhide it when the child gui is closed.

GUISetState(@SW_HIDE, $parentGUI)

When the child GUI is finished and deleted/removed, you bring it back up using:

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $parentGUI)

[Siao]

When the new gui is spawned, it brings up another Taskbar item. My question is when AutoIT form windows are spawned from others, is there a way to suppress the taskbar item from coming up so all of the taskbar items appear as just the main program one?

1) Give the child GUI the $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW ex.style, or, duh,

2) specify the main GUI as its parent as last option in child GuiCreate()

Edited April 18, 2008 by Siao

[Ealric]

1) Give the child GUI the $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW ex.style, or, duh,

2) specify the main GUI as its parent as last option in child GuiCreate()

Basically, here's an example of what Siao is saying for your #1 question:

$parentGUI = GUICreate("Parent GUI",100,100)
$childGUI = GUICreate("Child GUI",100,100,-1,-1,-1,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW,$parentGUI)

On the #2 question, see my post above, using this example.

[thepip3r]

Ealric: Thank you, I think that will be sufficient for what I'm looking for.

Siao: Thank you, I added this and it was exactly what I was looking for. I guess I should've RTFM a bit better. =P