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[Bllly]

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

[evan]

as stated in help file:

[Bllly]

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

[n-l-i-d]

[Bllly]

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

[Talisman2]

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... :-/

[Bllly]

Thanks for you help, will post findings ASAP.

[Bllly]

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

[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

[Bllly]

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

[Bllly]

Bump...

[Bllly]

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

Solution:

[drmurdoch]

Cool solution.

[hummer]

that is 'hide' code.