Always on top GUI

[Kiti]

How can I make a GUI label that always stays on top of other windows?

Edited June 13, 2008 by Kiti

[rudi]

Hi.

look at the help file:

WinSetOnTop

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Change a window's "Always On Top" attribute.

WinSetOnTop ( "title", "text", flag )

regards, Rudi.

[nobbe]

you mean your gui window should stay on top of all others ?

WinSetOnTop

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Change a window's "Always On Top" attribute.

WinSetOnTop ( "title", "text", flag )

for title use your own window title of your gui

[d4rk]

How can I make a GUI label that always stays on top of other windows?

If that's only a GUI label, it's impossible, look at the two above posts

[rudi]

How can I make a GUI label that always stays on top of other windows?

If that's only a GUI label, it's impossible, look at the two above posts

I don't think, that it's possible to push a GUI's element "topmost": This would have to be a GUI with layers..

So I'd create a separate GUI for just that label

Regards, Rudi.

[JailDoctor]

How would I make a msgbox stay on top?

[d4rk]

that's the trick, i firstly want to tell him that but that's cost much time

[d4rk]

How would I make a msgbox stay on top?

Msgbox(64,"Hello","")

WinSetOnTop("Hello","");

[JailDoctor]

[WinSetOnTop("Hello","");

Thanks, we just need to add the number one at the end to make it stay on top.

WinSetOnTop("Hello","",1);

[d4rk]

yes, that's my fault

[JailDoctor]

How would I make a msgbox stay on top?

Msgbox(64,"Hello","")

WinSetOnTop("Hello","");

It would need a number one at the end to stay on top.

WinSetOnTop("Hello","",1)

But still doesn't work for MsgBox

[d4rk]

ah, my fault agains, the script won't work unless the message box get replied ...

so you'll see this work

WinSetOnTop("Untitle - Notepad","",1)

[JailDoctor]

Yes, that is the proper way to use the set on top command, with a 'real" window.

I need to keep a MsgBox visible while the user interacts with another application.

Perhaps moving the MsBox to a specified place.

Can MsgBoxes be moved?

[JailDoctor]

I need to keep a MsgBox visible while the user interacts with another application.

Perhaps moving the MsBox to a specified place.

Can MsgBoxes be moved?

Ok, so they can't be moved. The MsbBox is centered so I move the user's application with WinMove ("YourWindow","", 540, 500) after the users do what the do and then the MsgBox (well, half of it) can be seen and they can click it to continue with the next instance of the original loop.

Perhaps a "Rambo" approach but it works for now until I figure out how to position a MsgBox out of the way.

Edited June 13, 2008 by JailDoctor

[Kiti]

Thank you Rudi, Nobbe and D4rk!

JailDoctor, for Msgboxes, you can use msgboxwizard which can be found on the folowing location : C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Examples\GUI\Advanced . It has an option to make it "always on top" without need of WinSetOnTop, as well as other useful options.

Ok, so they can't be moved. The MsbBox is centered so I move the user's application with WinMove ("YourWindow","", 540, 500) after the users do what the do and then the MsgBox (well, half of it) can be seen and they can click it to continue with the next instance of the original loop.

Perhaps a "Rambo" approach but it works for now until I figure out how to position a MsgBox out of the way.

But isn't this the only approach possible? Edited June 13, 2008 by Kiti

[rudi]

@d4rk: What does your signature tell us?

Regards, Rudi.

[d4rk]

I don't know, i found it on another forum ... don't have a clue what it is

[MrCreatoR]

To set a GUI on top you can use $WS_EX_TOPMOST style:

#include <GuiConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$GUI = GUICreate("Test Script", 300, 200, -1, -1, -1, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)

GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 20, 40, 60, 20)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $GUI)

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After MsgBox shown the script is paused, therefore WinSetOnTop (or any other function that goes after) can't work on it.

[rudi]

I don't know, i found it on another forum ... don't have a clue what it is

This makes me remembering a Paris couturier: Years ago he designed a bathing costume. The design was some arabic words he had taken a photo of, from some painting he saw on holidays.

The result was, that he got several death threats, as these "some words" were a very important sentence form the Koran, absolutely missplaced on that bathing cloth.

So: Never spread stuff you even don't know what it's about it might be badly insulting or even worse ...

Regards, Rudi.

[d4rk]

i asked some of my friend about it , but they say that it's innoncent, there's no meanting ... and till that, i'll keep it unless i find some better one

any way, thx for remind ...