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Moving windows over three monitors

 
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SuperLarryo



Joined: 15 May 2008
Posts: 2
Location: Middle of Nowhere
PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:29 pm    Post subject: Moving windows over three monitors Reply with quote
Hello AHK community.

I have been working with AHK for a few weeks now, and I am officially stuck. I tried to write a program to automatically create three windows, and then distribute each one to a separate monitor. I can get this to work for two monitors, and I have already viewed several other topics like this for examples. I want this program to be able to start up, create three windows at different URLs, and then move them to different monitors. Here is what I have so far:

Code:
;creates first window
Run, firefox.exe http://hobbit.roc.net/hobbit/
WinGetActiveTitle, ActTitle
WinActivate %ActTitle%
;I can't get this to work without a hotkey, so I made Ctrl-Right do the rest
^Right::GoSub, MoveWindow

MoveWindow:
SysGet, Mon, Monitor, 1
   WinGetActiveTitle, ActTitle
   WinGetPos, X, Y,,,%ActTitle%,,,
   ;determine which monitor it's on to see which one to move it to
   if(X < (MonRight - 4))
      GoSub, MoveWindowToRightScreen

MoveWindowToRightScreen:
   WinGetActiveTitle, ActTitle
   WinGetPos, X, Y,,,%ActTitle%,,,
   if(X < (MonRight - 4)){
      WinGet, state, MinMax, %ActTitle%
      if(state = 1){
         WinRestore, %ActTitle%
      }
      ;moves the first window to the third monitor
      newx := X + 2048
      WinMove,%ActTitle%,,%newx%,Y
}
;creates second window
Run, firefox.exe http://hobbit.roc.net/hobbit/network/network.html
WinGetActiveTitle, ActTitle2
WinActivate %ActTitle2%
GoSub, MoveWindow2

MoveWindow2:
SysGet, Mon, Monitor, 1
   WinGetActiveTitle, %ActTitle2%
   WinGetPos, X, Y,,,%ActTitle2%,,,
   ;determine which monitor it's on to see which one to move it to
   if(X < (MonRight - 4))
      GoSub, MoveWindowToRightScreen2

MoveWindowToRightScreen2:
   WinGetActiveTitle, %ActTitle2%
   WinGetPos, X, Y,,,%ActTitle2%,,,
   if(X < (MonRight - 4)){
      WinGet, state, MinMax, %ActTitle2%
      if(state = 1){
         WinRestore, %ActTitle2%
      }
      ;moves second window to second monitor (this is the part that doesn't work)
      newx := X + 1024
      WinMove,%ActTitle2%,,%newx%,Y
}
;creates the third window and leaves it at the first monitor, which actually works
Run, firefox.exe http://hobbit.roc.net/hobbit/rocnet/rocnet.html
WinGetActiveTitle, ActTitle3
WinActivate %ActTitle3%
ExitApp


This is a modification of some code I found elsewhere on this site. The first window and third window go where I need them to, but the second window does not move off of the primary monitor. I also can't get any of this to work without that first ^Right hotkey. Could somebody give me a few pointers? It seems that no matter what I try, I can't get this to work correctly. Any help at all would be appreciated.

(I don't need the windows maximized, I have a Firefox add-on that makes them full screen when created).
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keybored



Joined: 18 Jun 2006
Posts: 89
Location: Phoenix, AZ
PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 7:29 am    Post subject: hmm Reply with quote
OK I see at least part of the problem (see error message below).
You had the variable enclosed in %%
WinGetActiveTitle, ActTitle2


Error: The following variable name contains an illegal character:
"roc.net - Roc Recruitment, Roc Cleanser, The Roc Project - Mozilla Firefox"

The current thread will exit.

...
033: Gosub,MoveWindow2
036: SysGet,Mon,Monitor,1
---> 037: WinGetTitle,%ActTitle2%,A
038: WinGetPos,X,Y,,,%ActTitle2%,,
040: if (X < (MonRight - 4))
...
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SuperLarryo



Joined: 15 May 2008
Posts: 2
Location: Middle of Nowhere
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you for that. I got this to finally work today, but I had to split each window into separate programs that chain activate and close as each finish. Though it works now, I would prefer it to all be in one program. Oh well.
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keybored



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Posts: 89
Location: Phoenix, AZ
PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:49 am    Post subject: the code Reply with quote
Post the updated code I will have another look.
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