Simple question, difficult answer?

[crz 0]

Hello autoitscripters!

I've searched and searched, without finding what I'm looking for.

I want my GUI to display a simple MsgBox - Just like notepad does it, when you wanna close it, without saving your changes.

I don't want my MsgBox to be displayed in the taskbar along with my GUI. - Like it does by diffault.

Is there a solution?

Thanks in advance.

- crz

[faire 0]

I did a quick search for you. You could try using this code:

$window = WinGetHandle("MsgBox title")
$newParent = WinGetHandle("Program Manager")

DllCall("user32.dll", "hwnd", "SetParent", "hwnd", $window, "hwnd", $newParent)

Substitute "MsgBox title" for the title of your message box.

Though I'm sure there's an easier way.

Edit: doesn't seem to work on MsgBox...

Edited May 20, 2008 by faire

[crz 0]

@faire

Can't quite get it to work with the MsgBox either. Works on the GUI though, lol.

Thanks anyways, m8!

[PsaltyDS 27]

I did a quick search for you. You could try using this code:

$window = WinGetHandle("MsgBox title")
$newParent = WinGetHandle("Program Manager")

DllCall("user32.dll", "hwnd", "SetParent", "hwnd", $window, "hwnd", $newParent)

Substitute "MsgBox title" for the title of your message box.

Though I'm sure there's an easier way.

Edit: doesn't seem to work on MsgBox...

While the MsgBox() is up, your script is blocked, so the script can't modify it's own MsgBox(). There are ways around this, where you launch a separate process for the MsgBox(), but they are kind of ugly. Better to just create a custom MsgBox GUI of your own.

P.S. As Siao pointed out, you can make the MsgBox() a child of your main GUI by providing the $hWND option, and it doesn't show on the taskbar. It still blocks the script while it's up, though.

Edited May 20, 2008 by PsaltyDS

[rudi 12]

Hi.

Use a GUI instead. To see how to hide away from taskbar see this posting.

Regards, Rudi.

[Siao 0]

Damn, how I hate topics like these.

In latest version of AutoIt, parent window parameter was added to MsgBox(), FileSelectFolder(), FileOpenDialog(), FileSaveDialog(). It's documented both in changelog and corresponding helpfile articles. Case closed.

Edited May 20, 2008 by Siao

[crz 0]

@Siao

Wauw, I didn't actually miss that. I saw it many trys, searches, topics and replys ago. But it didn't change a thing adding the GUI handle to the MsgBox's parent parameter.

Now I get it.

I didn't add the "timeout" parameter, that lies just before it. So it probably ignored me adding the GUIs handle.

Sick!!

Thanks.