Detecting Application Full Screen Mode (XP)

[Flipp]

Hi All!

I have been looking for some way to detect if an application is running in Full Screen Mode so that I could suppress GUI Controls. For example, Windows Media Player or MS PowerPoint.

Has anyone been able to do this with AutoIt before? Perhaps outside of AutoIt?

Thank you in advance!

[PsaltyDS]

Hi All!

I have been looking for some way to detect if an application is running in Full Screen Mode so that I could suppress GUI Controls. For example, Windows Media Player or MS PowerPoint.

Has anyone been able to do this with AutoIt before? Perhaps outside of AutoIt?

Thank you in advance!

WinGetHandle() to get the handle of the current active window, then use WinGetState() to see if it's maximized. You could also get a list of all windows with WinList() and see if any of them were maximized.

[Flipp]

WinGetHandle() to get the handle of the current active window, then use WinGetState() to see if it's maximized. You could also get a list of all windows with WinList() and see if any of them were maximized.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried your suggestion above using PowerPoint as a test case in Presentation Mode and the returned state was 15 for when in this mode and in Maximise so I can not rely on this for what I am after as I am after a Full-Screen Mode which I cant get AutoIt to recognize.

Any other ideas?

[ResNullius]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried your suggestion above using PowerPoint as a test case in Presentation Mode and the returned state was 15 for when in this mode and in Maximise so I can not rely on this for what I am after as I am after a Full-Screen Mode which I cant get AutoIt to recognize.

Any other ideas?

Read the help file under WinGetState().

You have to examine the return with BitAnd() to test for the state you're interested in.

[KaFu]

Try this one:

HotKeySet("{ESC}","_exit")
HotKeySet("{F1}","_size")

while 1
    sleep(10)
wend

func _exit()
    Exit
EndFunc

func _size()
    $size = WinGetPos("[active]")
    if $size[0] = 0 AND $size[1] = 0 AND $size[2] = @DesktopWidth AND $size[3] = @DesktopHeight then
        MsgBox(0, "Active window stats (x,y,width,height)", "Active window IS Fullscreen" & @crlf & @crlf & $size[0] & " " & $size[1] & " " & $size[2] & " " & $size[3])
    Else
        MsgBox(0, "Active window stats (x,y,width,height)", "Active window IS NOT Fullscreen" & @crlf & @crlf & $size[0] & " " & $size[1] & " " & $size[2] & " " & $size[3])
    endif
EndFunc

Edited April 14, 2009 by KaFu

[Flipp]

Read the help file under WinGetState().

You have to examine the return with BitAnd() to test for the state you're interested in.

Perfect!

Thanks for the code and advice!