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Hi All,

I've got something you guys can probably help me with. I have a tablet PC, and want to use the 4th and 5th button of my mouse to show and hide the Tablet Input Panel (TIP). The showing is easy, but hiding doesn't seem to work. I've been juggling with it for some time now, but can't seem to find the solution.

Xbutton2::
Run TabTip.exe
return

(this works, and shows the window).

However the hiding seems to be more of a problem. The TIP window doesn't have a name, so I cannot use that. I used window spy and this ( http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8366 ) thread to find the class name for tap tip, which is IPTip_Main_Window. But still, I can't figure it out.

There is a button on the taskbar which identifies as TIPBand, and pressing that toggles show/hide of the main Input window. I think it refers to tipband.dll. I don't know much about programming, but hopefully someone can figure it out!

Thanks,

Billy

as stated in help file:

u can output the PID, so winhide, winclose can work with the ahk_pid %OutputVarPID%

Thanks for your reply.

I didn't quite get it yet.
The program's unique Process ID (PID) is blank, so that cannot be used.
Any other ideas?

Billy

That also doesn't work . I tried with process, close ... but to no luck. Any more suggestions?

I also couldn't identify the TABTIP.exe application while running, and trying to winkill the pid does not work - UNLESS you run your AHK process as Administrator - but killing the USER tabtip.exe process makes TABTIP rather unstable.

So... and this is a REALLY sucky way to do this, but it works... :-/



I've simply left-clicked the X button of the TIP (47 means that you shouldn't click the X button of another window by pressing XButton1 more than 1 time by mistake), and 8 is approximately in the middle of the X button height.
Like I said, it's not elegant, but it works...

Naturally, if your TABTIP is docked at the bottom of your screen, you need to modify the X co-ord ( 8 ) to some valid co-ordinate.
If your tabtip is a floating window, well... work it out...

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Talismaniac
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Thanks for you help, will post findings ASAP.

hey,

I tried it out and it obviously works! Thanks Talis. The solution is quite ugly though, so if some one has some other ideas/options it would be great!

Bllly

Okay, the solution works, but is not optimal. Is there any way to take into account where the window is floating? Sometimes I accidentally move the TIP window, and then the script obviously doesn't work anymore...

Thanks,
Billy

Hey,

Does anybody has another solution? Especially the method doesn't work so good when I am moving the TIP around. AutoHotKey is a very powerful program, I'm sure there must be a better solution!

Who can help?
Billy

Bump...

I spend roughly half the day on the IRC channel, and the guys there figured it out. Thanks!

Solution:

Cool solution.

that is 'hide' code.