B-17 The Mighty Eighth: Cannot Remove Border

[KirkDoug]

Hi, all. I'm new to AHK.

Here's script a YouTuber shared with me, the only change I made was to the path to my game install: I run the script, but the border still shows up.

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Path_B17 := "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microprose\B17"
Sleep 3000
Run, %Path_B17%\Game.exe, %Path_B17%
Sleep, 4000
WinSet, Style, -0xC00000,  B-17 - Some Funny Text
Return

In place of -0xC00000 I've tried using these . . . .

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WinSet, Style, -0xC00000
WinSet, Style, -0x800000

. . . . with the same result.

So, the script launches the game, but does not apply the Style I've set, nor does it change the text that shows up in the caption at the top (I'm assuming that's what

B-17 - Some Funny Text

is supposed to do.) So the script is failing to reach past the Run line?

[mikeyww]

The forum already has posts about this. The following may help (I did not test).

https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/84485-removing-borders/

viewtopic.php?t=12968

[KirkDoug]

So it seems my changing/ leaving off the Title (?) at the end of this line was the whole cause! I don't even remember why I'd changed it ......

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WinSet, Style, -0xC00000, B-17 - The Mighty Eighth

Here's the script in working form:

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Path_B17 := "C:\MicroProse\B17 The Mighty Eighth"
Run, %path_b17%\Game.exe,%path_b17%
Sleep, 2500 ;Any lower than 2500 and the next line wont execute.
WinSet, Style, -0xC00000, B-17 - The Mighty Eighth ;Don't change/ remove this
Return

[boiler]

Instead of the Sleep, 2500 line, which is either unreliable or causes your script to wait longer than necessary (or both), you should use:

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WinWait, B-17 - The Mighty Eighth