Window Type

by **mfergusson** on Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:25 am

Hi,

What are the options for Window Type? I'm using the "execute file" command to run a perl program. I need to prevent it from showing the window it runs in - run in background (?)

Thanks,

Mark

by **sharp_1** on Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:55 pm

Try this:

by **gritmaster** on Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:06 pm

What are the other options besides "hidden"?

What are examples of arguments that would work with the "Show WIndow" event?

What I would like to do is have a button on my jukebox that launches Alltunes (an Allofmp3 client).

Ideally, there could be some way to integrate the window within Xlobby so that once a user is done downloading a track, there would be an easy way to "get back" to Xlobby.

As far as importing the soings, I'm thinking maybe using the Xevent plugin that executes once the user opens up allofmp3 that afte, say, 5 minutes of inactivity, automatically refreshses the database. I haven;t tried it though yet.

What would be even cooler if is someone wrote an Xlobby front end for Allofmp3 like this http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3798. I think allofmp3 just uses wget to get files.

by **gritmaster** on Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:12 pm

Besides "hidden" what are the other permissible arguments for Window Type?

by **gritmaster** on Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:12 pm

Bump.

What are the other available arguments for window type?

Also, how would one use an event to switch from Xlobby to another, open program?

Is it possible to run programs within a window in Xlobby?

by **tswhite70** on Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:20 pm

If Steven is using ProcessWindowStyle, and I would guess he is, then the "window type" options should be Normal, Hidden, Maximized, and Minimized. But I've only ever tried Hidden - give the others a shot and let us know. Here's the info from MS: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... style.aspx

Switching from Xlobby to another open app can be accomplished using Girder or sendfocus (or if the app only allows one instance running at a time you could just call the exe again with os:execute direct from Xlobby).
Sendfocus.exe: http://www.xlobby.com/files/badabing/fi ... dfocus.zip
Related post: http://xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=27964#27964

For displaying another program inside an Xlobby window search the Plugins forum for "XMoveWindow".

good luck,
tsw

by **gritmaster** on Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:31 pm

Thank You