_TaskBar.au3

Mat · June 24, 2009

kk, this is called a big workaround.

I was trying to find a way that some programs have a different taskbar text to their title, and I came up with this. I then expanded it to include some useful functions that people ask for quite often like hiding the taskbar. And thats actually just 2 lines of code... It helps when you consider the taskbar to be a window like any other.

No examples just yet, i'm still trying to get some parts to work, on the the whole though, its complete. the project gradually slowed to a halt last tuesday, so I thought I should just release it in the hope it might still be of use to/could be extended by someone else. There is a basic example a few posts below: ←.

Stuff to do:

* Sort out the sync events. Its not perfect yet, and only handles some events. ("Move" is working now! It was returning RunDefMsg)

* Find a way to inforce aspects of $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW on the parent without affecting the graphics.

22 functions...

* _TaskBarItemCreate

* _TaskBarItemSetUpSync

* _TaskBarItemRemoveSync

* _TaskBarItemDestroy

* _TaskBarItemSetState

* _TaskBarItemSetStyle

* _TaskBarItemGetStyle

* _TaskBarItemGetState

* _TaskBarItemSetText

* _TaskBarItemGetText

* _TaskBarItemSetIcon

* _TaskBarItemSwitch

* _TaskBarGetHandle

* _TaskBarGetPos

* _TaskBarGetSide

* _TaskBarSetState

* _TaskBarGetState

* _TaskBarSetTrans

* _TaskBarSetStartState

* _TaskBarGetStartState

* _TaskBarSetClockState

* _TaskBarGetClockState

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Updated 24/01/11

Mat

Edited January 25, 2011 by Mat

Mat · June 25, 2009

2 new functions, to do with the startmenu... I can't find a way to automize the "all programs" bar, according to winfo, its a window with class "basebar", which doesn't like being controlled by me...

anyway:

* _TaskBarSetStartMenuState

* _TaskBarGetStartMenuState

No one interested? no? ah well.

MDiesel

Thornhunt · June 25, 2009

2 new functions, to do with the startmenu... I can't find a way to automize the "all programs" bar, according to winfo, its a window with class "basebar", which doesn't like being controlled by me...
anyway:
* _TaskBarSetStartMenuState
* _TaskBarGetStartMenuState
No one interested? no? ah well.
MDiesel

im interested

AND

this is Alot of help

thankyou

if i find out anything in my medeling. i will let you know

Mat · June 26, 2009

Thanks Thornhunt, it was you who got me to write the second half of these functions in the first place!

Still no success automating the "basebar", It doesn't like me.

I fiund out I'm not the first to automate the taskbar in this way, gafrost did... But that was a long time ago, and uses a lot of winapi.au3, whereas mines only include is SendMessage.au3.

MDiesel

amokoura · July 19, 2009

A very nice function collection, thank you!

I had to calculate the full desktop area minus taskbar's dimensions. Therefore I needed _TaskBarGetSide() and _TaskBarGetPos().

Feature request: A function to tell whether Autohide is on or off. Maybe the info is found from registry somehow.

Edited July 19, 2009 by amokoura

Yashied · July 19, 2009

Could you give some examples?

Mat · July 19, 2009

Basic example...

#include<_taskbar.au3>

$hMainUI = GUICreate ("Main Window", 300, 300, -1, -1, -1, 0x00000080)
GUISetIcon (-1, "Shell32.dll", 36)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW, $hMainUI)
$hTaskItem = _TaskBarItemCreate ("Taskbar Item text!", "shell32.dll", 14)
_TaskBarItemSetState ($TASKSTATE_SHOW, -1)
_TaskBarItemSetupSync ($hMainUI, $hTaskItem)
While GUIGetMsg () <> -3
WEnd

I'll make a full list soon

MDiesel

Yashied · July 19, 2009

Basic example...

#include<_taskbar.au3>

$hMainUI = GUICreate ("Main Window", 300, 300, -1, -1, -1, 0x00000080)
GUISetIcon (-1, "Shell32.dll", 36)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW, $hMainUI)
$hTaskItem = _TaskBarItemCreate ("Taskbar Item text!", "shell32.dll", 14)
_TaskBarItemSetState ($TASKSTATE_SHOW, -1)
_TaskBarItemSetupSync ($hMainUI, $hTaskItem)
While GUIGetMsg () <> -3
WEnd

I'll make a full list soon

MDiesel

This does not work!!!

Mat · July 19, 2009

Are you using the latest version of the udf? I made some changes and didn't post them.

Re download it and then see... cus its working here! and there is no reason I can see for it not working... the internals are all very basic.

MDiesel

Yashied · July 19, 2009

Are you using the latest version of the udf? I made some changes and didn't post them.
Re download it and then see... cus its working here! and there is no reason I can see for it not working... the internals are all very basic.
MDiesel

C:\Documents and Settings\Jack\Desktop\_taskbar.au3 (95) : ==> Unknown function name.:

_TaskBarItemSetOptions ($nStyle, $hRet)

^ ERROR

dantay9 · July 20, 2009

This is very useful. Thanks. Keep up the great work.

Mat · July 20, 2009

Thanks dantay!

C:\Documents and Settings\Jack\Desktop\_taskbar.au3 (95) : ==> Unknown function name.:
_TaskBarItemSetOptions ($nStyle, $hRet)
^ ERROR

hmm... Did I upload the wrong one then? Give me a sec, the link might be wrong. Becouse Iremember changing that.

MDiesel

Edit: Try re downloading, I need to speak to manadar, as I know I uploaded it, and my log file says I uploaded it a few times recently, about a month ago:

25\06\2009
_TaskBar.au3 - Out of date.
24\06\2009
_TaskBar.au3 - Out of date.

and yesterday, 4 times! It might be the script I wrote, but I doubt it... or I uploaded the wrong thing. I have just manually uploaded it, and it seems to be fine (checked the file, no _TaskbarItemSetOptions in there!), What happened was... is I named it that becouse it essentially controls the conrtext menu for the item, so options seemed appropriate, but thats going to expand when I llok at custom context menus.

Edited July 20, 2009 by mdiesel

guinness · January 25, 2011

Just had a little play around with this as it looked interesting there are some errors with Functions missing & Variables but its a case of simply renaming.

This is to Fix the problem with "Get The Taskbar Side", as currently it is Returning the wrong side.

ConsoleWrite(_Taskbar_GetSide() & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(_Taskbar_GetSideEx() & @CRLF)

Func _Taskbar_GetSide()
    Local $tg_WinGetPos = WinGetPos("[CLASS:Shell_TrayWnd]")
    If Not IsArray($tg_WinGetPos) Then Return SetError(1, 1, "None")

    If $tg_WinGetPos[1] > 0 Then
        Return "Bottom"
    ElseIf $tg_WinGetPos[0] > 0 Then
        Return "Right"
    ElseIf $tg_WinGetPos[2] = @DesktopWidth Then
        Return "Top"
    ElseIf $tg_WinGetPos[3] = @DesktopHeight Then
        Return "Left"
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>_Taskbar_GetSide

Func _Taskbar_GetSideEx()
    Local $tg_WinGetPos = WinGetPos("[CLASS:Shell_TrayWnd]")
    If Not IsArray($tg_WinGetPos) Then Return SetError(1, 1, "None")

    If $tg_WinGetPos[1] > 0 Then
        If $tg_WinGetPos[0] > 0 Then Return "Right"
        Return "Bottom"
    EndIf
    If $tg_WinGetPos[2] = @DesktopWidth Then Return "Top"
    Return "Left"
EndFunc   ;==>_Taskbar_GetSideEx

Mat · January 25, 2011

I haven't looked at this for a while, but thanks I'll take your word for it that you're right, but I don't think I'll be able to edit the files (they're not on my google code page), so I'll have to edit the top post. I'll have to see what's going on as it worked for me (and still does in some programs I use it in).

Geez, I don't even recognise the code as being mine at all.

Mat

guinness · January 25, 2011

I found it on Google Code >>http://code.google.com/p/m-a-t/downloads/detail?name=Taskbar.zip&can=2&q= And that code is kind of mine with the silly Variable prefix of $tg_

Mat · January 25, 2011

I found it on Google Code >>http://code.google.com/p/m-a-t/downloads/detail?name=Taskbar.zip&can=2&q= And that code is kind of mine with the silly Variable prefix of $tg_

Hmmm... Funny I didn't link it at the top of this thread... When I said I didn't recognize my code I wasn't referring to what you'd written at all, but the example earlier in the thread

This is how I have the code in other projects:

Func _TaskBarGetSide()
    Local $aPos = _TaskBarGetPos()
    If $aPos[0] < 10 Then
        If $aPos[1] < 10 Then
            If $aPos[2] > 400 Then Return "Top"
            Return "Left"
        EndIf
        Return "Bottom"
    EndIf
    Return "Right"
EndFunc   ;==>_TaskBarGetSide

I will update the first post now Thanks again.

wakillon · January 25, 2011

I will update the first post now Thanks again.

That crash at start...

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Bureau\TaskBar.au3(697,37) : WARNING: $hTaskBarSyncTaskItem: possibly used before declaration.
            If $hWnd = $hTaskBarSyncTaskItem Then
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Bureau\TaskBar.au3(698,36) : WARNING: $hTaskbarSyncItem: possibly used before declaration.
                    _SendMessage($hTaskbarSyncItem,
                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Bureau\TaskBar.au3(122,43) : WARNING: $hTaskBarSyncTaskItem: declared global in function only. Prefer top of file.
    Global $hTaskBarSyncTaskItem = $hTaskItem
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Bureau\TaskBar.au3(89,82) : ERROR: __TaskbarPrintDebug(): undefined function.
    If $bTaskBarDebug Then __TaskbarPrintDebug("_TaskBarItemCreate (" & $sText & ")")
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Bureau\TaskBar.au3(95,39) : ERROR: _TaskBarItemSetOptions(): undefined function.
    _TaskBarItemSetOptions($nStyle, $hRet)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Bureau\TaskBar.au3 - 2 error(s), 3 warning(s)

Edited January 25, 2011 by wakillon

Bluesmaster · December 1, 2013

Hello,

great work!

Is it possible with that udf to create a custom toolbar in the taskbar? Something like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8646510/how-to-make-my-deskbands-taskbar-toolbar-form-transparent

and if not what to do to make it possible?

best regards

Bluesmaster

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