Disable window resize

[sbonacina]

Dear all,

I went through the forum and didn't found yet any topic concerning my need.

My company users use a commercial application that I want to be run by an autoit script, because of some display setting that need to be done before running the app.

So I wrote a script that runs this application, this way:

Run ("cmd /C set USER_HOME="& $UserHome &"& .\prog.exe )
WInWaitClose ( "Program Name" )

I would like to lock the size of the application window, so I tried the following:

Opt("GUIResizeMode", 768); no resize
Opt("GUIEventOptions",0)

without any success.

And also this:

$spHandle=WinGetHandle ( "Program Name")
GUICtrlSetResizing($spHandle, $GUI_DOCKSIZE)

But, as far as I understood, all of theese apply to created GUI objects, not to external windows.

Any idea on how to do that?

Thanks a lot for your help

Best regards

STefano

Edited June 23, 2009 by sbonacina

[picea892]

I know there must be a better way, but I will give you my 2 cents. Query if the mouse cursor is a size symbol and the wintitle is the application. If it is, block mouse input.

Block mouse input using this

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...showtopic=82650

Global $on=0
while 1
    for $i= 8 to 13
    if $i = MouseGetCursor() and WinGetTitle() = "applicationname" and $on=0 then
    ;call Block mouse input here
        $on=1
    Next
    for $i= 1 to 7
    if $i = MouseGetCursor() and $on=1 then
    ; Remove Block from mouse
        $on=0
    Next
    for $i= 14 to 15
        if $i = MouseGetCursor() and $on=1 then
        $on=0
    ; Remove Block from mouse
    Next
    sleep(50)
WEnd

[spudw2k]

This code will remove the Sizebox style from a window.

#Include <WinAPI.au3>
Const $GWL_STYLE = -16
Const $WS_SIZEBOX = 262144

$hWnd = WinGetHandle("Program Name")
$style = _WinAPI_GetWindowLong($hWnd, $GWL_STYLE)
If BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX) <> BitOr($style,BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX)) Then _WinAPI_SetWindowLong($hWnd,$GWL_STYLE,BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX))

Edited June 23, 2009 by spudw2k

[sbonacina]

Many thanks, spudw2k. That worked fine.

Your hint paved my way to better understand the Window handling.

I went a little bit further and I disabled also the Maximize Box.

To whom it might be of interest, here's the code:

#Include <WinAPI.au3>; to call Windows api specific functions
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>; to include Windows specific constants, such as the Windows Style Values

$newhWnd = WinGetHandle("Program Name")
$style = _WinAPI_GetWindowLong($newhWnd, $GWL_STYLE)

If BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX) <> BitOr($style,BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX)) Then _WinAPI_SetWindowLong($newhWnd,$GWL_STYLE,BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX))

Edited June 24, 2009 by sbonacina

[martin]

Many thanks, spudw2k. That worked fine.

Your hint paved my way to better understand the Window handling.

I went a little bit further and I disabled also the Maximize Box.

To whom it might be of interest, here's the code:

#Include <WinAPI.au3>; to call Windows api specific functions
 #include <WindowsConstants.au3>; to include Windows specific constants, such as the Windows Style Values
 
 $newhWnd = WinGetHandle("Sun xVM VirtualBox")
 $style = _WinAPI_GetWindowLong($newhWnd, $GWL_STYLE)
 
 If BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX) <> BitOr($style,BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX)) Then _WinAPI_SetWindowLong($newhWnd,$GWL_STYLE,BitXOR($style,$WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX))

The BitXOR logic looks very complicated. I think this would do the same

If BitAnd($style,BitOr($WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX)) Then
  _WinAPI_SetWindowLong(...

[spudw2k]

The BitXOR logic looks very complicated. I think this would do the same

If BitAnd($style,BitOr($WS_SIZEBOX,$WS_MAXIMIZEBOX)) Then
  _WinAPI_SetWindowLong(...

Agreed, your method is much more efficient.