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[JGarf]

Hi! There are small utility programs (one of them is called "cool mouse")that "roll up the active window to its title bar", meaning that if you click for example with your Mouse Wheel button on the title bar of Word the whole text window disappears and only the menu title remains on the desktop giving easy access to other apps.

Is there any way, perhaps controlsend something, to implement this in AHK?

[Chris]

I'm not sure exactly how those rollup (shading) programs work, since I couldn't locate any source code on the net. However, the following might be a primitive solution:

[Jon]

I'm sure someone else will come up with a better way but this seems to work-

[Chris]

That looks nice and its a good use of the middle mouse button.

Also of possible interest:
FreeShade (Donationware)
http://www.hmmn.org/FreeShade/
http://www.hmmn.org/FreeShade/beta.html

[Rajat]

other guys beat me to this reply ...i'd also written a script but now its not needed.
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[JGarf]

I modified the script so it undoes the roll up afterwards and keeps the original position.

[Chris]

[Chris]

Here's a good one. I'll try to apply its rollup technique and "minimize to tray" feature to a future version of AHK:

http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent on Windows 2000 or above. WinRoll is lovingly hand-crafted in 100% pure assembly language to give the fastest response and the smallest memory footprint. WinRoll is proudly a FREEWARE and OPEN SOURCE application.

[JGarf]

Cool! Looking forward to it!

[Guest]

Any News on the implementation plan?

[Chris]

Both window rollup and minimize-to-tray are still on the to-do list, but lower in priority than custom GUI forms/windows since I think more users would want and use that feature.

If you don't already know about them, here are a few scripts that might be a partial solution in the meantime:

Rajat's winshade script ("reduce windows to their title bars and then set them back to original size by a single hotkey"):
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=556

The "minimize any window to tray menu" script:
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/MinimizeToTrayMenu.htm

And a variant of the above by gl0x0r: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=523

[whynot]

This is a program that's made to provide various mouse button/window interactions. For instance, you can set it up so that when you middle click a title bar, the window maximizes vertically, and when you right click a title, the window folds up, as per up as per the discussion here. There's a number of other possibilities also.

It used to be shareware, but was turned into freeware/abandonware awhile ago by Blue Carpet, its creators. It's very lightweight, and works great in XP, in addition to earlier versions of Windows.

The only drawback to using it with XP, or other themeing type of skins, is that the folded up Window reverts back to a Windows Classic look & feel until it's unfolded. Functionally, it's 100% cool.

You can find a download for it, as well as the neccesary reg info (again, provided by the company as a universal freeware reg when it was donated as freeware) at the following site: http://www.saunalahti.fi/eike/

I know it's not using AHK, but I've used it for years & thought others might appreciate as well since it meets the needs of this thread.