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Windows on top of eachother: Z coord?

 
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ulti



Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:28 pm    Post subject: Windows on top of eachother: Z coord? Reply with quote
If you take all the windows that exist on your screen, you could say they all have a Z-coordinate ( dimension of depth).
Is there a way to specify the Z-coord of a certain window?


An example of my case:

I have 5 windows stacked on eachother and when the visible window contains a certain pixel, it will be moved away from the stack to the right.
Then i do an action on the window and it should be moved back to the stack on the left, but to the very back of this stack.
However, when i just use WinMove, it will move the window to the front of the stack ( since it's also activated ).

So is there a way to move it to the back of the stack?
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Micahs



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You could use the 'SetWindowPos' API call. You can't specify a position, but you provide an hwnd to insert after.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This thread might help as well - Changing a window's Z position (not top or bottom)
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This will place the gui behind the active window when you press Esc. (Obviously, our gui can't be the active one or it won't do anything!)

Code:
SWP_NOMOVE=0x2   ;These are flags for 'setWindowPos' use these as necessary
SWP_NOSIZE=0x1
SWP_NOACTIVATE=0x10
SWP_SHOWWINDOW=0x40
SWP_NOZORDER=0x4
SWP_FRAMECHANGED=0x20

Gui, +LastFound
Gui, Add, Text,, Press 'Esc' to place this window behind the active window
Gui, Show, NA
guiID := WinExist()

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Esc::
   aID := WinExist("A")   ;get the id of the active window
   gx := 0   ;we are using 'SWP_NOMOVE' and 'SWP_NOSIZE' so the size and pos can be null.
   gy := 0
   gw := 0
   gh := 0
   ret1 := DllCall("SetWindowPos", "UInt", guiID, "UInt", aID, "Int", gx, "Int", gy, "Int", gw, "Int", gh, "UInt", SWP_NOACTIVATE|SWP_SHOWWINDOW|SWP_FRAMECHANGED|SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE)
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ulti



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the help guys.
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