Hidden gui?

[Radsam]

Hi,

I am developing an application for our organization however it seems as if the window is hidden when users run it using Windows 2000. I know it is running as the hotkeys I defined work and it is in the sys tray.

Here are a few lines of my gui create function. Is there any reasons why this is happening? I've tested on other XP machines and everything is a-ok...

$IMSC = GUICreate("IMSC", 200, 36, $winpos[0], $winpos[1], -1, $WS_EX_TOPMOST + $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW)
$statuslabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel($status, 0, 0, 200, 16, $SS_SIMPLE + $SS_SUNKEN)
;menu items are here

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

Radsam

[Radsam]

$winpos[0] = IniRead("C:\Program Files\IBM\IMS Console\Config.ini", "IMSC Settings", "WinPosX", -1)
$winpos[1] = IniRead("C:\Program Files\IBM\IMS Console\Config.ini", "IMSC Settings", "WinPosY", -1)

It reads the values in the ini file and displays the Gui in that location. I use a correspnding code to write to the ini file the window's lcation when closing. I do all of this so that the App will open in the same spot that it was last in.

Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE;Case the "X" Button is pressed
            $confirm = MsgBox(262144 + 36, "Confirm Close", "Are you sure you want to close IMSC?")
            If $confirm = 6 Then
                $winpos = WinGetPos("")
                IniWrite("C:\Program Files\IBM\IMS Console\Config.ini", "IMSC Settings", "WinPosX", $winpos[0])
                IniWrite("C:\Program Files\IBM\IMS Console\Config.ini", "IMSC Settings", "WinPosY", $winpos[1])
                Exit

[Valik]

IniRead() returns a string, not a number. Try casting the return from IniRead() to a number:

Number(IniRead(...))

I would guess that you are also storing the size? If so, when you restore it, you are basically creating a window at coordinate 0, 0 wit the size 0, 0.

[Radsam]

The doc is a bit confusing regarding the GuiSetState.

Should I use

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

or

GUISetState(@SW_SHOWNORMAL)

[Valik]

Either.

[Radsam]

I don't see a diference when I run the app if the parameters are either strings ("123456") or numbers (123456). I mean it runs on mine and another users pc no problem using either-or. I don't see how using "numbers" in the GUIcreate function parameters will make it display on a Windows 2000 pc.

I'm going to test right now anyway, but does what I say make sense?

The following code shows that if there is no value in the ini file, a NUMBER -1 is used for the X and Y positions. THis should display window in the center. This does even work on the Win2000 PC, but on mine and another users XP machine, it does.

$winpos[0] = IniRead("C:\Program Files\IBM\IMS Console\Config.ini", "IMSC Settings", "WinPosX", -1)
$winpos[1] = IniRead("C:\Program Files\IBM\IMS Console\Config.ini", "IMSC Settings", "WinPosY", -1)

Edited January 27, 2005 by Radsam