Active window and mouse location

[Lagi Pittas]

Hi Doug,

Could this thread be helpful?

http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=30984

and this lesson
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/2592/l/125868-searching-for-
an-open-window-by-title

Only for Livecode "windows"/stacks though


Failing that, using FFI with C would do it

You need to get the handle of the window

via enumwindows (abou 10 ways of doing it)

       https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
ms633497.aspx

then call

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
ms632673(v=vs.85).aspx

This pdf (aboutvisual  foxpro winapi access ) give all manner of calls and
calling structures which should help with FFI - I'm going to have to have a
go at FFI  soon.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a0sa3q8vu3ctf3o/E-WAPI.pdf?dl=0

I did this with a Visual Foxpro routine over a decade ago - but I've been
to bed since then so hopefully one  of the clever cloggs on here could do
this
to give us all a good template example for accessing windows apis  via FFI
and C - Go on mark/panos/Ali  - in between bites of your sandwiches.
a 15 minutes slot on LC Global?

Regards Lagi






On 9 May 2018 at 16:32, Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Thanks, as always, for the responses. Getting old means you forget about
> the differences between Commands and Functions... but anyway
> My MAIN question was whether there was a way to get LC to make a desktop
> window THE active, top-most window... next necessarily the LC's window (in
> my case) but ANY window for that matter.
>
> I'll be using a shell command out to an AUTOHOTKEY compiled script to
> switch to the desired desktop window but was wondering if there was a
> native LC way to do so.  BTW, anyone who hasn't heard or tried AutoHotKey,
> should do themselves a huge favor (favour in the British colonies) and
> explore its capabilities... which, I assure you, are myriad on Windows
> platforms.  There are similar tools I have NOT explored available on the
> Mac.
>
> However, before this thread evolves into a discussion about external
> scripting tools; please, if possible, let me know if anyone knows a LC-way
> to active a specific window on the desktop. ... ps... I am completely
> ignorant (and likely to remain so) regarding Java... so, if that is an
> option, I'd need a "seed" scripting suggestion as to how to start.
>
> Cheers!
> Doug
>
> Douglas Ruisaard
> Trilogy Software
> (250) 573-3935
>
> > In Windows 7, LC v8.1.9
> > Is there a way to make an LC "window" the active / top window on the
> desktop after making another
> > window on the desktop active?  I have an app which allows me to copy a
> portion of text from, say, a
> > Notepad window, into the clipboard.  A timed loop within my LC script
> then pulls the clipboard text
> > into an LC field and starts an analysis of the contents of that field.
> THAT works great.  But then I
> > need the LC window to become the active window after the analysis is
> done and displayed on my LC
> > window, so I can manipulate the various controls I have on it.
> >
> > Of course I can "manually" click on the LC window to activate it but I
> was wondering if there is a way
> > to do so in LC script.  I've tried "focus on field xxx" (where xxx is a
> field in my displayed LC
> > window), "set the screenMouseLoc to the loc of this stack", "go to this
> stack" and a variety of "click
> > at" commands... none of these make the LC window the top active window
> on the desktop.  The Notepad
> > (or whatever) window stays as the top, active window.
> >
> > On a somewhat related note, how do you "set" the mouse location within
> an LC window?  I know and use
> > the "set the screenMouseLoc to the loc of this stack" but an equivalent
> "set the MouseLoc to the loc
> > of this stack" or "set the mouseLoc to "650,420"" generates an error of
> "Properties: token is not a
> > property) near "mouseLoc", char 10" when trying to save the code.  Seems
> odd that I have to use FULL
> > screen coordinates to set the mouse location rather than relative ones
> to the stack.
> >
> > Douglas Ruisaard
> > Trilogy Software
> > (250) 573-3935
> >
> >  > The "screenMouseLoc" is a property, but the "mouseLoc" is a  >
> function.You cannot set a function.
> >  >
> >  > Why this was wrought this way is anybody's guess.
> >
> > If memory serves mouseLoc was implemented as a function for
> compatibility with HyperCard, which
> > offered no way to move the mouse cursor.
> >
> > When the opportunity came up to make a global version, it seems the
> choice to make that one a property
> > was simply because a property is more useful, allowing both getting and
> setting.
> >
> > --
> >   Richard Gaskin
> >   Fourth World Systems
> >   Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
> >   ____________________________________________________________________
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> >
> >
>
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