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[Robert Carnegie]

MicroTouch software for a touchscreen monitor places a right-button icon in a square tile at bottom right of the screen. When this button is pressed, the next touch on the screen is interpreted as a right (secondary) mouse button instead of a left (primary) mouse button.

I would like to move this button or alternatively to put it on top of Windows interface elements that paint over it. On its own, it floats over most applications, but the taskbar covers it.

(Alternatively, I could use someone else's program that does the same job - I think there are freebies available - but I would prefer to fix this one.)

This is on Windows XP Professional.

The catch is the program doesn't seem to have a window name. WindowSpy doesn't seem to detect that I am pointing at this thing instead of the desktop or another application. It doesn't appear in Applications on Windows Task Manager, but apparently it does appear as a process TwMonitor.exe. The file for TwMonitor.exe has description "Touch Monitor".

How can I pursue this?

Another approach that could be scripted is to terminate TwMonitor.exe when it is not visible, by reading the graphic image at the screen location, and then to re-start it. That puts it back. But that's a clumsy way to make it reappear, and it doesn't allow me to move it on screen - I think.

I suppose that messages from AutoHotkey addressed to "Touch" may be received but ignored, and that's why the control isn't doing what I want it to do. But on the other hand, in a different exercise, when I tried a script that simply tells every object that comes to foreground to maximise, windows that clearly weren't designed to be maximised, were so; application message boxes, file selectors. A few, not. It was amusing and inconvenient at the same time. So I'd guess against this program having the default attribute of ignoring "Winset, Top", etc. Still, I could be wrong.

[JSLover]

[Robert Carnegie]

That got it! Thanks!

The button seems to respond to WinMove but to little else, so I cut the script down to this to move it near to top right of the non-taskbar area - I've forgotten how to do quotes so,

; obtain Desktop1Left Desktop1Top Desktop1Right Desktop1Bottom
;
SysGet, Desktop1, MonitorWorkArea, 1
NewX:=Desktop1Right+-85
NewY:=Desktop1Top+34

touchpn=TwMonitor.exe
touchdebug=1
Process, Exist, %touchpn%
touchpid:=errorlevel
IfWinExist, ahk_pid %touchpid%
{
WinMove, %NewX%, %NewY%
}
else msgbox, 16, , %touchpn% window doesn't exist!
return

...after which I modified it again to launch TwMonitor.exe as well and replace its startup shortcut. But I think I still had to catch it in your fishing-net.

Thanks again!