Permanent Popup Window

[Guest nap]

how could i creat a permanent window which couldn't be closed until the app says?

this window should although show "..." as a small animation this means one "." two ".." three "..." zero ""and then start again. only to show that the system is active.

[SmOke_N]

Could do a GUI w/ no X button.

[Guest nap]

how to get away the x button?

[SmOke_N]

#NoTrayIcon
#include <GuiConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI", 300, 250, 400, 305, 0x80080040, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)

GuiSetState()

While 1
;script here
Wend

Annoying little bugger too!

Please Note that I took the tray Icon out, If you don't feel like using the taskmanager to close the program, I suggest you remove #NoTrayIcon

[Guest nap]

doesn't work it only creats a normal window with x.

[SmOke_N]

Works in mine, XP Pro SP2.

[Guest nap]

now it works don't know what i did wrong ^^.

the next thing is this window should popup while i push a button and the other window should be hidden by pushing this button.

here i have two probs: how to hide the parent window and how could the new window popup?

Edited August 10, 2005 by nap

[SmOke_N]

Read the help file on @SW_SHOW AND @SW_HIDE

Here's a small example without the Child window.

#NoTrayIcon
#include <GuiConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI", 300, 250, 400, 305, 0x80080040, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)
$Label = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 100, 100, 400, 305)
GuiSetState(@SW_HIDE)

While 1
Sleep(5000)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
GUICtrlSetData($Label, "...3")
GUICtrlSetFont($Label, 36, "Arial Bold")
Sleep(2000)
GUICtrlSetData($Label, "...2")
GUICtrlSetFont($Label, 36, "Arial Bold")
Sleep(2000)
GUICtrlSetData($Label, "...1")
GUICtrlSetFont($Label, 36, "Arial Bold")
Sleep(2000)
GUICtrlDelete($Label)
$Label = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 50, 30, 400, 305)
GUICtrlSetData($Label, "The Show" & @CRLF & "Will Now" & @CRLF & "Begin")
GUICtrlSetFont($Label, 36, "Arial Bold")
Sleep(3000)
ExitLoop
Wend

It's not the code you want.... but it has everything you need... so look at it closely.

Edit: Added a Sleep(3000) so you could see the last part of the loop.

Edit 2: Added a Sleep(2000) after "...1" so you could see that... I suck at scripts on the fly!!

Edited August 10, 2005 by ronsrules

[SmOke_N]

I was working on one of my scripts, and realized I probably should of just did the 3,2,1 in a For Statement to give you an even better idea on things you might try.

#NoTrayIcon
#include <GuiConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI", 300, 250, 400, 305, 0x80080040, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)
$Label = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 100, 100, 400, 305)
GuiSetState(@SW_HIDE)

While 1
   Sleep(5000)
   GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
   For $i = 3 To 1 Step - 1 
   GUICtrlSetData($Label, "..." & $i)
   GUICtrlSetFont($Label, 36, "Arial Bold")
   Sleep(2000)
   Next
   Sleep(1000)
   GUICtrlDelete($Label)
   $Label = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 50, 30, 400, 305)
   GUICtrlSetData($Label, "The Show" & @CRLF & "Will Now" & @CRLF & "Begin...")
   GUICtrlSetFont($Label, 36, "Arial Bold")
   Sleep(3000)
   ExitLoop
Wend

[Guest nap]

i think i'm too noobish. here some lines of my code:

#include <GuiConstants.au3>

$win1= GUICreate("window1", 350, 200)
$button1= GUICtrlCreateButton("press", 10,10)

GuiSetState()

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
     $msg = GUIGetMsg()
     Select
     Case $msg= $button1
     GUISetState(@SW_HIDE)
     $win2= GUICreate("window2", 150, 50, 400, 305, 0x80080040, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)
; this label should be visible in window 2
     GUICtrlCreateLabel("test", 20, 10)
     EndSelect
WEnd

the only thing which works is the hiding window1. but window2 doesn't popup could u please tell me which command is missing?

[SmOke_N]

$win2= GUICreate("window2", 150, 50, 400, 305, 0x80080040, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)

; this label should be visible in window 2

GUICtrlCreateLabel("test", 20, 10)

GuiSetState(@SW_SHOW)

EndSelect

I didn't look much, but try setting the state of the other GUI.

Good Luck

[Guest nap]

oO u were right, thx a lot. is it possible to suround window2 with black lines?

[SmOke_N]

Considering we shaved off all the borders, I would assume the only way would be to make a GUI behind that one a bit bigger.

I also looked at your code again... What's up w/ your While statement?

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE ?? 1st, I dunno what your trying to do here, 2nd.... Thought you didn't want the GUI To Close?

#include <GuiConstants.au3>

$win1= GUICreate("window1", 350, 200)
$button1= GUICtrlCreateButton("press", 10,10)

GuiSetState()

While 1
     $msg = GUIGetMsg()
     Select
     Case $msg= $button1
     GUISetState(@SW_HIDE)
     $win2= GUICreate("window2", 50, 50, 400, 305, 0x80080040, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)
     GUISetBkColor(0xFFFFFF)
     $LABEL = GUICtrlCreateLabel("TEST", 13, 15)
     GUICtrlSetFont($LABEL, 10, "ARIAL BOLD")
     GUICtrlSetColor($LABEL, 0x0000FF)
     GUISetState()
     $WIN3 = GUICreate("", 70, 70, 390, 295, 0x80080040)
     GUISetBkColor(0x000000)
     GUISetState()
     EndSelect
WEnd

I don't know if this is good or not, I'm sure gafrost will be around in a bit to tell us how bad of an idea this is () or maybe he can show how to make it better.

[Guest nap]

i set the gui color to yellow this should be enough.

i took the code out of bigger script and didn't change this thing ^^.