Excalibur

I am sure this has been asked before but I can't find it in the search. I just want to launch a link in whatever the system's default browser is. Thanks. EDIT In case anyone else wants to know: $url = "http://www.google.com.au" ShellExecute ($url)which was found here

I was wondering if there was a way to switch the windows left handed and right handed mouse support. I've got a script that does it by executing the main.cpl (mouse control panel applet) and running keyboard and mouse events on that, however with my latest laptop, it changed the entire interface for the mouse panel, so I was wondering if there was a more direct way to call a left handed/right handed mouse switch to windows. Thanks for the help.

How about any other methods of controlling windows services?

Managing Windows Services: I found this little library: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...dows%20services Which looked like exactly what I needed, however, every time I use any of the functions from the library, there is _atlest_ a 1 minute pause. Do any specific windows services need to be enabled for this method of managing windows services to function? Any other thoughts as to why this might be not working?

lmao. I did not know it was that easy. Thanks, works like a charm.

Is there any way to get a window to stay on top of the start bar? I made a small clock that I want to stay on top of the start bar. As soon as you click the start bar, it goes behind it. So far, theres are the window styles I've used: $WS_EX_TOPMOST, $WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE

what is an OCR?

I got something working. Ignore this thread.

First off, great job, multi-tasking has been the No.1 headache for me in autoit and this looks like its going to solve quite a bit. Second, I'm a little confused about how this works. (not how to work it ) I think I understand how it works for an uncompiled script. Except, I don't see where in Func _CoProc($sFunction = Default, $vParameter = Default) it does anything to tell the new process what to execute. I'm figuring it has to do with what is set using EnvSet, however, it appears to me that you are just calling a plain Jane AutoIt process without doing anything. Unless the autoit.exe processes or expects things like CoProc to be defined. Perhaps I'm just missing something simple or over complicating the whole thing. Wont be the first time. EDIT: I've figured most of my questions out.

I found something interesting, when you [show Desktop], the title and class change for the desktop object. Please see the attached screenshot.

Awesome, I am certainly having a lot of fun with this. Can anyone say raining desktop icons? :-P. However, sometimes the application can't get the window handle to the desktop. Why is this? It can get it again if I alt+ctrl+del and kill explorer, then restart explorer. Edit: I've found a correlation, It seems to do that when I do a "Show Desktop".

Would anyone happen to know how to get and set icon coordinates on the desktop?

O.k. I'm pretty sure I understand how to accomplish this task now, thank you very much for your help.

I guess that will suffice, it isn't repeated very often. However, is this a custom program you call, otherwise how do you redirect output, so far I don't see how as I intend to call a program that is not of my creation.

I know this has been asked before but I can't seem to find anything with the forum search feature, any tips? At any rate, I would like to execute a dos command line call, and get the output of the call. So far I see how to get the return code, how to execute a command and so forth. Suggestions? Thanks for any assistance in advanced.