1. How to make a Window manager?
Is there any way to write an app that will let me minimize/maximize
other windows, preferably an arbitrary number of them with a single
button click?
2. Re: How to make a Window manager?
> Is there any way to write an app that will let me minimize/maximize
> other windows, preferably an arbitrary number of them with a single
> button click?
Hi,
Try this, you'll need my window finding functions from:
http://www.rat-software.com/projects.html
-----code starts------
without warning
include window.ew
constant USER32 = open_dll("user32.dll")
constant dllShowWindow = define_c_proc(USER32, "ShowWindow", {C_POINTER, C_INT})
constant SW_HIDE = 0,
SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1,
SW_NORMAL = 1,
SW_SHOWMINIMIZED = 2,
SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3,
SW_MAXIMIZE = 3,
SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE = 4,
SW_SHOW = 5,
SW_MINIMIZE = 6,
SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE = 7,
SW_SHOWNA = 8,
SW_RESTORE = 9,
SW_SHOWDEFAULT = 10,
SW_MAX = 10
object window,junk
puts(1,"Enter a window to minimize (wildcards alowed): ")
window = gets(0)
window = window[1..length(window)-1]
c_proc(dllShowWindow,{window_GetHwnd(window),SW_MINIMIZE})
puts(1,"\nPress any key to maximize window\n")
junk = gets(0)
c_proc(dllShowWindow,{window_GetHwnd(window),SW_MAXIMIZE})
puts(1,"Press any key to restore window\n")
junk = gets(0)
c_proc(dllShowWindow,{window_GetHwnd(window),SW_RESTORE})
-----code ends------
Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
Rat Software
http://www.rat-software.com/
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3. Re: How to make a Window manager?
- Posted by francis at gmx.co.uk
Sep 07, 2001
I did not download the window "finding" library: but by the word "find",
surely the window enumerating functions would instinctively be more applicable
than having to first know the title/attributes of a window first?
You can enumerate the desktop windows with one API call or enumerate the
child windows by calling this API function with GetDesktopWindow() function in
whatever library you happen to be using. This way you can achieve enumeration
of all active windows (and I mean ALL if EnumChildWindows is called with the
handle of the desktop window)
F.
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