Script for quickly changing taskbar auto-hide settings?

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Aeon

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Hello dear friends at displayfusion!

I was wondering if anyone could assist me with a script that worked in the following way:

Whenever a display is disconnected, the auto-hide setting for the taskbar would change from "auto-hide" to "disable" and back to "auto-hide" again!

I have this annoying issue that every time I disconnect my tablet monitor, my main screen's taskbar goes missing and that procedure I mentioned is the only way to bring it back without restarting the machine.

Thank you so much!

Mar 31, 2015 (modified Apr 1, 2015) • #1

I'm not sure if that's possible, but we'll certainly look into it

Apr 6, 2015 • #2

Aeon

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Thank you, Keith!

Just trying to think about something to sort out that annoying bug, which probably does not deserve people spending time looking into it, as I think I'm the only one ever connecting and disconnecting a display like that.

That was the only way I found and making it an automatic process would be a hell of an awesome time-saver for me

Apr 8, 2015 • #3

Ok, we've actually found that just trying to set the location of the taskbar (even though it will fail) seems to cause it to refresh. Could you try this?

On the Settings > Functions tab, click "Add Scripted"
Give it a name and a key combination, and then clear the default code that's in the box
Paste in the code from below
Click OK, and OK again
Next time your Windows taskbar disappears, press the key combination and see if it comes back

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using System;
using System.Drawing;

public static class DisplayFusionFunction
{
public static void Run()
{
IntPtr windowHandle = BFS.Window.GetWindowByClass("Shell_TrayWnd");
BFS.Window.SetLocation(windowHandle, 0, 0);
}
}

If that doesn't work, we have another idea

Thanks!

Apr 10, 2015 • #4

Aeon

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Heyyy Keith!

I followed the steps but it did not work

Taskbar remains invisible, except for a very thin outline.

Apr 11, 2015 • #5

Ok, too bad

We do have a few other ideas, and we'll keep you posted once we have a new script to try.

Thanks!

Apr 14, 2015 • #6

Aeon

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Awesome! Can't wait to try them out

Regarding the previous script, I could tell it would trigger something, as the little icon popped up when I hit the key combination, but as far as bringing the taskbar back from transparency/invisibility, nothing.

Thanks for the effort! :laugh:

Apr 16, 2015 • #7

Ok, we were able to add scripting functions to toggle auto-hide off and on. Could you update to 7.2 Beta 4, and then try the attached script?

• Attachment: Toggle AutoHide Off and On.txt [219 bytes]

Apr 21, 2015 • #8

Aeon

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Yay, sure!

But the attachment thingy says "protected" so I can't see the code.

Apr 23, 2015 • #9

Sorry about that! Try it now

Apr 23, 2015 • #10

Aeon

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