Make an executable completely invisible. Minimised just isn't cutting it....

[GKFC]

Hi all,

Thanks for all your recent help and emails, it has sorted things no end.

Quickie.

Once my executable has run, it needs to play a final .wav, launch a browser, then quit at the end of the .wav. Currently I have it so that the .exe is minimised and the browser launches in front of it.

However.

If I minimise the browser BEFORE the .wav has finished there is a nice little tab at the bottom left of the screen that is my executable which can be re-maximised.

I really don't want it to be visible at all, so is there a way of making the .exe completely invisible (possibly involving minimising) for this step?

Currently my projector settings are:

Window shape = Rectangle
Border style = None + Hide Taskbar icon

And I am using the following code to minimise it:

var wnd = getMainWnd();
wnd.windowState = "minimized";

Muchos gracias,

G.

[GKFC]

Hi GKFC,

:

You are a complete idiot.

Please just use wnd.hide(); in your code instead of minimise and everything will be fine....

Cheers,

G.

[GKFC]

*BUMP*

OK, now I have a problem where if I ALT+TAB out of the application and the machine has the Windows toolbar set to "Always on top" the app sits "behind" the toolbar when I ALT+TAB back in.

I don't want to set the app's preferences to "Always on top", so I've tried using:

var wnd = getMainWnd();
wnd.show();
wnd.bringToTop();

On a frame in the movie, but it doesn't seem to like it....

Any ideas?

G.

[SWFKit]

Hi,

You cannot put a not top most window above a top most window by using the "bringToTop" method.

[GKFC]

Hmmm ok.

Thanks for the response but I"m still a little ???

"bringToTop(): Puts the specified window into the foreground and activates the window."

So.... exactly what does that function do??

Furthermore, without forcing the app to always be on top would there be a way ensuring the app is above everything else using function calls or something?

Cheers,

G.

[mountainash]

Maybe you could hide the Taskbar? But remember to bring it back for the user before quitting (tb.show()).

var tb = Window.find("Shell_TrayWnd");
if (tb != null) tb.hide();

[GKFC]

;D

hey that isn't a bad idea, I'll look into it!

thank you, whoever you are....