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Piet · Guest

Hi people,
I want to close Opera 8 (www.opera.com) using a Autohotkey script. First i tried

Piet · Guest

Opera also doesn't have any command line args to close it.

polyethene · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5248 Location: UK

jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 2951 Location: Minnesota

WinClose is equivalent to pressing a program's X button in the top right. If that's not what you want it to do, though, you could see if it's a menu item and then select it using WinMenuSelectItem.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10716

Actually, WinClose isn't quite the same as the X button. The X button usually produces an SC_CLOSE message (similar to Alt-F4), while WinClose sends WM_CLOSE to the window, which is a littler harsher.

Here is the way that is closest to Alt-F4:
PostMessage, 0x112, 0xF060,,, WinTitle, WinText ; 0x112 = WM_SYSCOMMAND, 0xF060 = SC_CLOSE

jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 2951 Location: Minnesota

Ah, that's right. Dang, I should know that, too, because I just researched that a little while ago for the KDE script. Confused

piet · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 5

Thanks for the quick replies! Unfortunately, none of your proposes worked for me Sad

WinClose, WinKill and PostMessage with the proposed parameters only close one window if multiple browser windows are open.
WinMenuSelectItem didnt work either, as Opera seems to have non-standard menus. Although it would have been nice, I think I can also close Opera manually.
Maybe I'll try ControlSend again...
But thanks again
Piet

jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 2951 Location: Minnesota

Have you tried a loop with IfWinExist and WinClose? If one string matches all browser windows (like " - Opera" or something), that should close them all.

Guest · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject:

If I used a loop to close one window at a time, then at the next start Opera would only reopen the last closed window. Instead, if I exit Opera with Ctrl-Q (corresponds to File/Exit), the next time Opera will automatically open all the windows opened during the last session.
But when I tried ControlSend to send Ctrl-Q, it didnt work Sad

ranomore · Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 170 Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Did you try to ControlSend to the active window, or to a control in the window?

piet · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 5

Watcher · Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 60

Just a thought, Opera handles tabbed windows very well... if you try it you'll never go back ).