How can the GUI be stuck to the desktop? HELP?

[RomanK]

Hello Guys,

I have been watching this forum for a few days now, and I learned so much! My Browser favourite toolbar has grown from one line to three!!!

And now I need your help... and I'm sure some of you want to know this, too:

How can I set a GUI as the bottom window, so that it allways lays under the other windows and kind of "sticks" to the desktop?

But I have not found a function, an Au3 option or even a udf for this. I used google, the forum search and of course the help file - well, but I don't really know what to search for.

I am working with the current version of AutoIt.

Greets, Roman

EDIT: Please don't post me explanation-less DLL-Things, I don#t understand that DLLs.

Edited August 8, 2008 by RomanK

[rasim]

This?

[RomanK]

This?

No, I wasn't talking about magnifying to screen edges, but the window order.

Let's say you have 3 windows open.

When you click at one at the taskbar, it becomes the top window, and the other are "under" it.

Back to AutoIt:

To prevent the GUI from being "under" another window you can set

WinSetOnTop("My Test GUI" , "", 1)

But is there also a way to have it the bottom window, so that all others are on top / "over" it?

But by the way, the code you linked to is very useful! :-D I will also be using that in my next project, but for that, I need to solve the problem first.

Edited August 8, 2008 by RomanK

[ProgAndy]

You can use this:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
$Desktop = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Progman]")
#region - GUI Create
$GUI = GUICreate('Stuck on desktop')
_WinAPI_SetParent($GUI,$Desktop)
GUISetState()
#endregion
#region - GUI SelectLoop
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd
#endregion

but then, it is NOT shown in the Taskbar.

[RomanK]

You can use this:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
$Desktop = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Progman]")
#region - GUI Create
$GUI = GUICreate('Stuck on desktop')
_WinAPI_SetParent($GUI,$Desktop)
GUISetState()
#endregion
#region - GUI SelectLoop
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd
#endregion

but then, it is NOT shown in the Taskbar.

Dankeschön!!!!!!!!! Ganz ganz ganz dickes Dankeschön Andy!

:P

[sensalim]

That works, but why do you need this?

[RomanK]

That works, but why do you need this?

Sorry, top secret by now. I'd really like to tell you, but I don't want some idiot to copy my idea before I have even finished or published my program.

But I can tell you that it will improve Windows' usability quite a lot so that you can do things faster and easier with less clicks.

[rasim]

Sorry, top secret by now. I'd really like to tell you, but I don't want some idiot to copy my idea before I have even finished or published my program.

But I can tell you that it will improve Windows' usability quite a lot so that you can do things faster and easier with less clicks.

Please don`t insult members!

[RomanK]

Please don`t insult members!

I didn't mean any offence to sensalim, I didn't call him an idiot, he is surely not, but I thought of other guys who exist everywhere, also in this forum.

Nevertheless, sorry, and it will not happen again.

[dnix]

This is the caravelle guy...based on those posts I would normally guess he thinks little of everyone he talks to. But I will give him the benefit of the doubt and say English is probably not his first language, so his nuances might only have the appearance of offensiveness.