Moving a Gui Window before it's shown

[PaulLeavitt]

Hello All! So I have a particularly vexing situation. I am running a dual monitor setup (different sized monitors too), and since I'm usually using my main application on my second (and larger) monitor, I would like my AHK Gui's to show up on that monitor. I finally developed a way to force popup's to appear centered on top of the last active window, but it requires that the popup (my Gui in this case) to be shown before it's moved, which looks bad.
So my question is this: with GUI's, is there a way to move them after they're created, but before they're shown?

Alternatively, is there a way I could use an expression in the Gui, Show line to determine it's location? use expressions for the X and Y coordinates, along with the width/height of the GUI to center it on a window?
Thanks!
Paul

[MJs]

is there a way to move them after they're created, but before they're shown?

it's simple, see if this helps:
use Gui, Show, Hide ; the window is hidden
then
Get the window itself position by means of WinGetPos; you way want to use DetectHiddenWindows
and move it as you want, with Gui, Show or WinMove

is there a way I could use an expression in the Gui, Show line to determine it's location

NO, but use the method above

use expressions for the X and Y coordinates, along with the width/height of the GUI to center it on a window?

same as above, except get the position of the window in question, and make your math to center your GUI it
if by expressions you mean expression

By contrast, the expression method omits the percent signs around variable names, but encloses literal strings in quotes. Thus, the following are the expression equivalents of the previous examples:
MsgBox % "The value in the variable named Var is " . Var . "." ; A period is used to concatenate (join) two strings.
CopyOfVar := Var

one more thing, your approach is a bit strange, and I'm not sure if it is 100% accurate, if so and if you can, post your sample code for that specific task

[T_Lube]

"Gui, Show" has as part of it coordinates to show. You could have it show on the other monitor I am assuming. You might need to use some kind of DllCall to find out which monitor or something, not sure of the syntax on that myself, but I am sure you can find it on the forum. If that doesn't work, set in the gui options, +LastFound and then use the WinMove command as though the Gui was last found. 2 options for you.

[lexikos]

You can use the SysGet command to get the coordinates of a monitor.

[T_Lube]

Oh yeah forgot about that one.

[Guest]

Code: Select all

WinGetPos,X,Y,Width,Height,A
Xpos:=X+Width/2-50
Ypos:=Y+Height/2-50
Gui, Add, Button,  x8 y8 w100 h100
Gui, Show, x%Xpos% y%Ypos%

[T_Lube]

I am pretty sure that you only need to set the Gui position in "Gui, Show" parameters, pardon the mis-nomer.