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im trying to prevent duplicate child windows...

(unfortunately they do not have unique titles)

i know theres prob different ways to do this - the way i know how to would involve flags (lame i know)

a better way would involve the use of if winexists,@gui_winhandle, & wingethandle but im not sure what that would look like (bc the winhandle for every child changes everytime u open the script)

also, how will i get the win handle of the child before i create it? (to compare it with pre-existing ones)

hope im making sense.

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hope im making sense.

sadly, not.

Provide a [small] code snippet demonstrating your issue. You may wish to examine your running processes w/ pslist or procexp (sysinternals utilities) -- or do you mean child windows instead of processes....

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  • 11 months later...

i have a script that has several child windows..

i am trying to prevent duplicate child windows from being created..

currently this is how i am doing this:

If WinExists("PC Migrator") Then
        MsgBox(262144, @ScriptName, "Already running PC Migrator.")
        Return
    EndIf

Is there a better way to do this? i dont like this way because if there's a document that has the same heading it prevents me from running the function that opens that child window.

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gcue,

How do you create these child windows within your script? If it is by user interaction with a GUI, then you could disable the control that creates the child while the child is active - that would prevent duplicates. :mellow:

Without some code it is difficult to offer much more.....

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Or maybe, but guessing what you need, you could do something like

If WinExists("SomeTitle" then
 WinActivate"SomeTitle")
Else
 ;create it
EndIf
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heeey martin!!!

i like your idea martin but if the title matches an excel document, then that excel document gets activated...

melba, the control that runs them is part of a toolbar menu.. tough to disable that no?

thanks guys

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gcue,

the control that runs them is part of a toolbar menu.. tough to disable that no?

_GUICtrlToolbar_EnableButton - Enables or disables the specified button

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ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
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heeey martin!!!

i like your idea martin but if the title matches an excel document, then that excel document gets activated...

[/quote

Hi gcue!

Yes but maybe you could do something like this

Func IsTitleFree($hParent, $st)
$var = WinList($st)

For $i = 1 to $var[0][0]
 
 If _WinAPI_GetParent($var[$i][1]) = $hParent "" then return False
 
Next

Return True
EndFunc
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