Brass Plugins: Mime
Supported Directives: Api - Set
Window Visibility
This directive manipulates the appearance and visibility
of a window. It can manipulate top level windows and child windows.
The format of the directive is:
[ShowWindow(state)]
The state parameter may be one of the following options:
- minimize - minimizes
the window to the task bar (or within an MDI app)
- maximize - maximizes
the window
- restore - emulates
the "restore" option when right clicking a window titlebar
- show - makes
the window visible
- hide - makes
the window invisible
If you need to manipulate a window belonging
to another application, you must first change the target window
using the SetTargetWnd() directive.
Example
Maximize a window:
[ShowWindow(maximize)]
Minimize a window:
[ShowWindow(minimize)]
Hide a window:
[ShowWindow(hide)]
Show a window:
[ShowWindow(show)]
Technical Notes
Be aware that this directive can override an application's
normal behaviour.
The show and hide parameters may initially seem
a little strange. They are intended to be used with the SetTargetWnd
directive. This allows a directive to show and hide windows other
than the one a gesture was made in. An example of this could be
a file management system. Two Explorer windows may be needed for
easy drag-and-drop copying between multiple local folders and one
single "backup drive" remote folder. Using SetTargetWnd
with ShowWindow, the remote "backup drive" Explorer window
can be shown or hidden with a single gesture as needed.
Be aware that if you make a gesture in a window
then use ShowWindow to hide that same window, you might have trouble
getting it visible again.
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