Hiding desktop

[SaphuA 0]

Hi,

I'm trying to hide my desktop using this function I found on the forum:

func _ShowHideIcons($sState)
    local $hParent = WinGetHandle("Program Manager")
    local $hListView = ControlGetHandle($hParent, "", "SysListView321")
    WinSetState($hListView, "", $sState)
endfunc

However it only appears to be working randomly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it only hides and doesn't show.

Why could this be?

[maqleod 1]

not sure why it is only sometimes, you really should add some error checking to see what exactly is failing

you can try this to get the desktop window's handle instead:

local $hParent = _WinAPI_GetDesktopWindow()