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How to make AutoIt GUI child of another Window ?


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I wanna make a GUI in AutoIt and make it REAL child of my project window (It's not an AutoIt GUI)

I searched the forum and found this on making child window:

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

$hGUI = GUICreate("Main GUI", 300, 200)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $hGUI)

$hGUI_Child = GUICreate("Child GUI", 200, 100, -1, -1, -1, $WS_EX_TOPMOST, $hGUI)

GUIRegisterMsg($WM_ACTIVATE, "WM_ACTIVATE")

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $hGUI_Child)

GUISetState(@SW_DISABLE, $hGUI)

Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

Func WM_ACTIVATE($hWnd, $Msg, $wParam, $lParam)
    Local $wActive = BitAND($wParam, 0x0000FFFF)
   
    Switch $hWnd
        Case $hGUI_Child
            If Not $wActive Then
                WinActivate($hGUI)
                WinActivate($hGUI_Child)
            EndIf
    EndSwitch
   
    Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG
EndFunc

It works perfect, Now I want to use this code to make AutoIt GUI child of my project window, I tried This after some try and error:

#NoTrayIcon
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

if @Compiled AND $CmdLine[0] == 0 then
    MsgBox(16,"Error","Missing cmd parameters!")
    Exit
endif

if @Compiled then
    $title = $CmdLine[1]; Get window title from CMD
Else
    $title = "Welcome!"; only for debugging
endif
$Parent = WinGetHandle($title)
;GUISetState(@SW_DISABLE, $Parent)
WinSetState($title,"",@SW_DISABLE)
if @error Then
    MsgBox(48,"","Can't find window with title " & $title)
    exit
endif
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$hGUI_Child = GUICreate("Child GUI", 200, 100, -1, -1, -1, $WS_EX_TOPMOST, $Parent)
;Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("This is About Box.", 48, 24, 89, 17)
;$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 128, 50, 52, 30, 0)
GUIRegisterMsg($WM_ACTIVATE, "WM_ACTIVATE")

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $hGUI_Child)



Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE 
WinSetState($title,"",@SW_ENABLE)

Func WM_ACTIVATE($hWnd, $Msg, $wParam, $lParam)
    Local $wActive = BitAND($wParam, 0x0000FFFF)
   
    Switch $hWnd
        Case $hGUI_Child
            If Not $wActive Then
                WinSetState($title,"",@SW_ENABLE)
                WinActivate($hGUI_Child)
            EndIf
    EndSwitch
   
    Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG
EndFunc

but its not gonna work for me as the Original code does on AutoIt GUI (Parent).

I want my Parent window to be disabled (And could not get focus) till the AutoIt GUI(Child Window) is running

Could you please help me about how to do this ?

Thanks.

Edited by Nevercom

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You can only make a child gui for a gui created in autoit, but why did you want to? There may be another way.

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Thanks for reply,

I don't know much about AutoIt, I'm new here.

As I said, i have found that code and changed it a bit but it's not what really i want, it disables the parent window, but not completely, Parent window can get focus sometimes, what i want is to make a GUI in AutoIt and make it REALLY a child of my parent window which is not created by AutoIt, i mean parent window should be disabled till the child is closed.

but i don't know how....

Thanks anyway

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As far as I know, this is impossible. You can make a gui it close when another window closes, you can center it over another window, etc, but you cannot make it actually a child of that window. There may be a way to disable the other window while the gui exists if that is all you need, I'll try a few things.

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i mean parent window should be disabled till the child is closed.

This works for me
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$class = "[CLASS:Notepad]"

If Not WinExists($class) Then $pid = Run("notepad.exe")
WinWait($class)
WinActivate($class)
WinWaitActive($class)
$hParent = WinGetHandle($class)
$hChild = GUICreate("Child GUI", 200, 100, -1, -1, -1, $WS_EX_TOPMOST, $hParent)
GUISetState()
WinSetState($hParent, "", @SW_DISABLE)

Do
    Sleep(10)
    If Not ProcessExists($pid) then 
        GUIDelete($hChild)
        Exit
    EndIf
    
Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

WinSetState($hParent, "", @SW_ENABLE)
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