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PhiLho
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You inspired me for an improvement of background color for texts.
@Goyyah: I wasn't clear in my remark on the topic: when I wrote "Where did I saw this text-with-shadow effect?", it is the kind of question I ask myself when I take a quick look at the list of topics in the Scripts & Functions section or even in a Search result! Hence the remark.
@Titan: It seems that Goyyah tried to put something like <img src="Images/2pixelsH.bmp" width="100" height="100" /> in an HTML file and got two distinct colors.
Note that SVG is already supported (perhaps only partially) by Firefox 1.5.
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Thalon
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Looks nice!
I used a 2x2 Pixel-Bitmap already to draw a flexibel surrounding border (like the highlight-option in Winspector). But this scaling ability is new for me 
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SKAN
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Thalon wrote: | Looks nice!
I used a 2x2 Pixel-Bitmap already to draw a flexibel surrounding border (like the highlight-option in Winspector). But this scaling ability is new for me |
Thanks Thalon! 
Dear PhiLho,
I saw it. Very nice effect!
| You wrote: | | I wasn't clear in my remark on the topic: when I wrote "Where did I saw this text-with-shadow effect?", it is the kind of question I ask myself when I take a quick look at the list of topics in the Scripts & Functions section or even in a Search result! Hence the remark. |
I get it now! .
Please wait for the Part 2. I will be requiring your valuable opinion.
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SKAN
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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SKAN
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Dear PhiLho,
In your Post
| You wrote: | [EDIT] I wrote non-sense!
Note that if you use AltSubmit, you won't have gradient, so this trick works mostly with [b]BMP images (not a problem as these images are very small)! |
Yes! I just noticed  . I was not interested in JPG - because for this particular resolution (1x2) , BMP was sized @ 62 byes whereas JPG was 512 bytes. Also the file format of BMP is very simple and we could easily create one dynamically.
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject: clock/timer/replace start button |
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This is awesome!
I have looked for a countdown timer, seemingly forever. I have even thought of making it myself. Thankfully, you have done it for me.
Now I'm scared that microsoft will hire you and creative stuff like this will be forever gone.
this clock/timer combination is so much more useful than the start button.
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SKAN
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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rbt137 is referring to the above post.
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SKAN
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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SKAN
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | How to Disable ( Grey-out ) the Close Button?
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62506#62506
The Solution is as simple as this:
Removing the menu item "Close" from the (Window's) System menu
"greys out" the Close button!
Compare the snapshots below:-
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I present here two functions that will ease the task:
DisableCloseButton() will disable the Close button of the active window.
| Code: | DisableCloseButton(hWnd="") {
If hWnd=
hWnd:=WinExist("A")
hSysMenu:=DllCall("GetSystemMenu","Int",hWnd,"Int",FALSE)
nCnt:=DllCall("GetMenuItemCount","Int",hSysMenu)
DllCall("RemoveMenu","Int",hSysMenu,"UInt",nCnt-1,"Uint","0x400")
DllCall("RemoveMenu","Int",hSysMenu,"UInt",nCnt-2,"Uint","0x400")
DllCall("DrawMenuBar","Int",hWnd)
Return ""
} |
- Note: Disabling the Close button helps one to avoid accidental closure of a window.... Nothing more!. ALT+F4 will still close the window!
RedrawSysmenu() will reset the System menu of the active window to default state. | Code: | RedrawSysMenu(hWnd="") {
If hWnd=
hWnd:=WinExist("A")
DllCall("GetSystemMenu","Int",hWnd,"Int",TRUE)
DllCall("DrawMenuBar","Int",hWnd)
Return ""
} |
Examples:
Disabling the Close button of an AHK GUI :
| Code: | Gui, +Resize
Gui, Show, w400 h300, Demo Window
DisableCloseButton()
Return
; Copy & Paste DisableCloseButton() below |
Disabling/Enabling the Close button of any Window:
| Code: | #F2::DisableCloseButton(WinExist("A"))
#F3::RedrawSysmenu(WinExist("A"))
Return
; Copy & Paste DisableCloseButton() and RedrawSysmenu() below |
Disabling/Enabling the Close button of all instances of Internet Explorer Windows:
| Code: | ^#F2::
WinGet,WindowID,List,ahk_class IEFrame
Loop, % WindowID {
cWindow = % WindowID%A_Index%
DisableCloseButton(cWindow)
}
Return
^#F3::
WinGet,WindowID,List,ahk_class IEFrame
Loop, % WindowID {
cWindow = % WindowID%A_Index%
RedrawSysMenu(cWindow)
}
Return
; Copy & Paste DisableCloseButton() and RedrawSysmenu() below |
Credit:
With a little alteration to DisableCloseButton() one can disable the other two buttons, I guess!...
Feedback please!....
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SKAN
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: How to enable Drag for a GUI without a Titlebar ? |
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| Quote: | In his reply to this post, Laszlo wrote:
"Goyyah, you could add a note to the original post, that a window w/o title bar can still be moved in the traditional way (with the arrow keys), by selecting Move from the Alt-Space activated context menu."
As Mr.Laszlo said: The simple way to move any window is to press ALT+Space (when the Window has the focus), and the System menu of the window will be displayed. Selecting Move will allow the user to move the window with Up/Down/Left/Right arrow keys.
In case, you want to keep a Hotkey handy in your "always-running-master-script" - The following one-liner would suffice:
<Your Hotkey>::PostMessage, 0x112, 0xF010,,, A
This quote was added on: 31-Jul-2006
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| Quote: | How to enable Drag for a GUI without a Titlebar ?
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=64185#64185
How to?
- Create a GUI without caption: Gui, -Caption.
- Add a control (that is not input capable*) and assign a gLabel.
- The gLabel routine should have the following line:
- PostMessage, 0xA1, 2,,, A
Thats it .... Now a user can click on the defined control to drag the GUI as required.
| Quote: | Important Note: This postmessage requires that the Left Mouse Button is down when being posted!
We cannot do this with a push button ( and other buttons having on/off state) because the gLabel will never get executed until we release the mouse button. So it is ideal to associate the gLabel to a static control.
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How it works?
When the Left Mouse Button is down on the Titlebar, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN ( 0xA1 ) message gets posted and that enables the window to be dragged. We are simulating the exact condition by posting WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN to the GUI.
"Exact condition" means that the drag can be cancelled with <Esc> which relocates the GUI to its previous postion.
Here is a Copy / Paste / Try example - Enabling drag with a text control :
| Code: | Gui, -Caption +ToolWindow +0x400000
Gui, Font, S14 Bold, Verdana
Gui, Add, Text, w200 h27 Border Center GuiMove, Click Here `&& Drag
Gui, Show, AutoSize
Return
uiMove:
PostMessage, 0xA1, 2,,, A
Return
GuiEscape:
Exitapp |
Result of above code - Snapshot:
The above is just a snapshot ...
DO NOT TRY TO DRAG IT - 
An another Copy / Paste / Try example - Enabling drag with a Picture control used as a Titlebar :
| Code: | IfNotExist, bg.bmp
URLDownloadToFile
,http://autohotkey.net/goyyah/Tips-N-Tricks/Gradients/Caption.bmp
,bg.bmp
Gui, -Caption +ToolWindow +0x400000
Gui, Margin, 0, 0
Gui, Add, Picture, w400 h16 Border Center GuiMove, bg.bmp
Gui, Add, Text, y+1 w402 h280 Border
Gui, Show, AutoSize
Return
uiMove:
PostMessage, 0xA1, 2,,, A
Return
GuiEscape:
Exitapp |
Result of above code - Snapshot:
Some ideas!
Advantages in removing the default Titlebar and enabling the drag with a control.
- It gives the developer flexibility in declaring conditions on when the GUI can be moved or stay freezed in the current postion.
- The GUI can equal the size of a Titlebar or may even be smaller. Full freedom in deciding the size of the GUI.
- Enables a developer to Skin his application so that the GUI looks uniform in different Windows OSes.
- With a simulated Titlebar it is easier to add other buttons (Its hard to mess with the regular titlebar).
Experiment 1: 
- Download TinyClock.zip
- The Clock can be dragged to a suitable position on the screen and be frozen there.
- The Clock by default is Always on Top and can be set to be Always @ Bottom
- GUI consists only a single button and it is g-labelled to show the Traymenu.
Experiment 2 : 
- Download Media.zip
- A "Titlebar sized" - "Drag-enabled" GUI that has a Traymenu Icon, Menu bar, Media buttons and System buttons all in one line!
- Menu will always be shown on the top-left of the GUI occupying the WHOLE LINE!. The menu seen in the snapshot is actually a seperate GUI. The effect is made possible with a workaround involving two GUI's.
- All pictures are icons bound into a single Library (ICL file).
Experiment 3 : How to Simulate a GUI Titlebar ? (or) How to user define a GUI Caption ?
Snapshot of an experimental GUI Application with an user-defined caption bar.
- Download AHK-SE.zip
- The grey colored Titlebar is a vertical Linear Gradient simulated with a 2 pixel Bitmap.
See: How to Simulate a Linear Gradient ?
- The carved-out effect of the Caption text is simulated by Superimposing two text controls.
See: How to Display Shadowed Text in a GUI ?
- Most windows just display the Icon on the left side of the Titlebar. I have attached the Traymenu to it! That is how a Titlebar should be when AHK-ites develop a GUI.
- This GUI does not maximize. So, I have used that button to toggle "Always On Top" setting. I never had a requirement for resizeable GUIs. If your GUI requires maximizing, it will be cool to enable double-click-on-titlebar maximizing for your GUI. I have not tried this, but should be possible.
- One might have a need for a Menu bar. See Experiment 2 for a possible workaround.
- Well! I am not sure how many people have this habit, but I do!
My habit: When there is a situation of too many open windows and I am closing unwanted windows fastly! I first click on the Close button and without releasing the left mouse button I browse the window's contents. If the window has to be closed - I release the left mouse button... and if not - I move the cursor away from the Close button and the Close gets cancelled!
I have enabled the Titlebar buttons to mimic this functionality.
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Edit: Added 30-Jul-2006
| Quote: | How to simulate the activated/deactivated status for a simulated Titlebar?
A window`s Title bar/Caption (sort of) greys-out when it is Not Active and looks bright
when it is the Active window!.
The current utility I am developing requires a Always-On-Top GUI with a simulated Titlebar.
The gui looks pretty neat - however with one limitation. The user would never be able to guess
(by looking at the titlebar), whether the GUI is having focus or not
My immediate solution was to use a IfWinActive in Timer routine to change the color of the Caption text.
Then did some research and found an answer to this: How to Detect Activation/Deactivation of a GUI?
Here is a Copy / Paste / Try Example: | Code: | OnMessage(0x06 , "WM_ACTIVATE")
Gui -Caption +0x800000 +AlwaysOnTop +ToolWindow
Gui, Color, FFFFE7
Gui, Margin, 0,0
Gui, Font, s9 , Verdana
Gui, Add, Text, x0 y0 +0x4 w400 h19
Gui, Add, Text, x0 y0 +0x200 w400 h19 cFFFF80 Backgroundtrans vCaption guiMove
, % A_Space " Simulated Titlebar"
Gui, Show, h300
Return
WM_ACTIVATE(wParam, lParam) {
IfGreaterOrEqual,wParam,1, Gui,Font,cFFFF80
IfLessOrEqual ,wParam,0, Gui,Font,c808080
GuiControl, Font, Caption
}
uiMove:
PostMessage, 0xA1, 2,,, A
Return
GuiEscape:
ExitApp |
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polyethene
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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I found an error in your ConnectedToInternet() function. You used:
ConnectedToInternet(flag="") {
If flag=""
The if statement is not an expression so the default value of 0x40 is never set (unless two literal quotation marks were passed). Using ConnectedToInternet(flag = 0x40) would be better.
However I find that calling the function with any of the listed values doesn't work 
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Rajat
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Goyyah... like all your other tricks, this one is really neat! thanks for sharing.
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SKAN
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Dear Titan,
| You wrote: | I found an error in your ConnectedToInternet() function. You used:
ConnectedToInternet(flag="") {
If flag=""
The if statement is not an expression so the default value of 0x40 is never set (unless two literal quotation marks were passed). Using ConnectedToInternet(flag = 0x40) would be better. |
Thanks for pointing it.
| You wrote: | | However I find that calling the function with any of the listed values doesn't work |
Have updated ConnectedToInternet(). Please try again and let me know. It works now properly with my Single user PC with ADSL connection.
Regards,
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SKAN
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| Rajat wrote: | | Hey Goyyah... like all your other tricks, this one is really neat! |
Thanks Rajat!
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polyethene
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Goyyah wrote: | | Have updated ConnectedToInternet(). Please try again and let me know. It works now properly with my Single user PC with ASDL connection. |
No it doesn't work for me
This version seems to work: | Code: | MsgBox % Connected()
Connected(fl = 0x40) {
Return, DllCall("Wininet.dll\InternetGetConnectedState", "UInt *", fl, "UInt", 0)
} |
However the flags seem to be ignored which is quite strange.
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