RE: Linking two windows together

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:46:00 GMT

I can't think of a good way to automate that either. I would probably just write a Scripted Function that focuses both windows, assign a key combination to it, and run it manually when you want to switch to Chrome.

Linking two windows together

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:44:52 GMT

I'm trying to link two Chrome browser windows together so that when the first window gets focus, thw second window also becomes visible. The reasoning is this; window #2 is a tab manager that is "docked" and contains a list of all my open tabs. It's quite nice and really fast but the problem with it not becoming visible when window #1 does is really irritating.

I've managed to get it to work rather clumsily a couple of times but approchaes have their own drawbacks. One approach is to use a trigger for window #1 and then run a function that gets window #2, changes the focus to window @ which causes it to come to the foreground, then I set the focus back to windows #1. Only one small problem; it's basically in a loop because of the trigger.

The second approach is pretty close to the same except instead of setting the focus to window #2, I do a hide and then a show of window #2. That stops the loop but now the window "flashes". Any suggestions on how to accomplish this? My code is shown below.

Approach 1:

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using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public static class DisplayFusionFunction
{
    private enum ShowWindowEnum : uint
    {
        SW_HIDE = 0,
        SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1,
        SW_NORMAL = 1,
        SW_SHOWMINIMIZED = 2,
        SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3,
        SW_MAXIMIZE = 3,
        SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE = 4,
        SW_SHOW = 5,
        SW_MINIMIZE = 6,
        SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE = 7,
        SW_SHOWNA = 8,
        SW_RESTORE = 9,
        SW_SHOWDEFAULT = 10,
        SW_FORCEMINIMIZE = 11,
        SW_MAX = 11,
    }

    [DllImport("User32.dll")]
    [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
    private static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, ShowWindowEnum nCmdShow);
        
    public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle)
    {
        IntPtr hwnd = BFS.Window.GetWindowByText("Tabman");
        
        if ((ulong)hwnd > 0) 
        {
            if (BFS.Window.IsMinimized(hwnd))
            {
                BFS.Window.Restore(hwnd);
            }
            else // maybe an if goes here?
            {
                // Hide the window
                ShowWindow(hwnd, ShowWindowEnum.SW_HIDE);
                
                // Wait .10 seconds
                BFS.General.ThreadWait(100);
                
                // Show the window
                ShowWindow(hwnd, ShowWindowEnum.SW_SHOW);
            }
        }
    }
}

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using System;
using System.Drawing;

public static class DisplayFusionFunction
{
    public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle)
    {
        IntPtr hwnd = BFS.Window.GetWindowByText("Tabman");
        
        if ((ulong)hwnd > 0) 
        {
            BFS.Window.Focus(hwnd);            // Tabman window
            BFS.Window.Focus(windowHandle); // The Chrome window that triggered all this.
        }
    }
}

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