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RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:04:21 GMT

Just wanted to follow up and let you know we've added in a Copy button to the trigger window in our latest version

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:50:30 GMT

The comments chain here is getting pretty long, so we're going to lock this thread. If you have any questions or issues using Triggers, please create a new topic in the Discussions, or contact us here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Support/#contact

Thanks!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 02:42:49 GMT

Can your JS script read from the registry? If so, you could create a scripted function in DisplayFusion that writes the current monitor profile name to the registry.

Get the Monitor Profile name: BFS.DisplayFusion.GetCurrentMonitorProfile

Write to the registry: BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValue

You can then have your Trigger rule run that scripted function.

Hope that helps!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 19:55:07 GMT

Is there any way to pass parameters/arguments from triggers to functions? When I use the Monitor Profile Changed trigger, I want the function that I run (a call to run Nodejs with a JS script) to be able to know what profile it was changed to.

Alternatively, is there any way to hook into DF to listen for monitor profile changes? Particularly, I'm looking for a way to do this from Nodejs, but basically any other thing that can be executed can be used. (For example, I'm using Nodejs to set the monitor profile via a command exec to the CLI)

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:49:00 GMT

There isn't a way to use different events for the same rule, no, sorry! We're planning to add a duplicate button for the Trigger rules in a future update though.

Thanks!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:32:35 GMT

Is it possible to make two different events fire the same Trigger? I want

Window Created

and

Monitor Profile Changed

. (I searched help and couldn't find anything on this.)

If not, I presume I have to duplicate the Trigger. Do I have to laboriously copy all the Match conditions and Actions, or is there same way to duplicate? (I searched help and couldn't find one.)

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:45:10 GMT

@David: I've added that to our feature request list, thanks!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:19:14 GMT

It would seem like it would be nice if DF would switch Monitor Profiles automatically when monitors are enabled/disabled physically (or perhaps in Windows) and then the Monitor Change Event could be used.

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 02:31:04 GMT

I'd love a built-in trigger for monitor setup changes, e.g. if a monitor is plugged/unplugged.

I've built this myself by:
1) Running a powershell script to listen for WM_DISPLAYCHANGE using a System.EventHandler
2) Having this PS script launch a process with a specific command line string
3) Creating a "Process created" trigger that monitors process command lines for the exact string that appears

It's a hack, but it totally works! Just a few lines of code too. Think this kind of thing could be coded in? Surely it wouldn't break anything 🙃 does DF monitor for this event already? I'd guess it does, somewhere, for something...

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 12 May 2020 21:06:55 GMT

Quote:

It sure is! On the Settings > Functions tab, double-click the "Toggle Triggers" function in the list and then you can set a hotkey on it

Hope that helps!

Great, thanks!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 12 May 2020 00:39:42 GMT

It sure is! On the Settings > Functions tab, double-click the "Toggle Triggers" function in the list and then you can set a hotkey on it

Hope that helps!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 07 May 2020 12:06:52 GMT

Hi!

Is there any way to disable triggers without opening the settings? For example using a keyboard shortcut or taskbar icon's context menu?

In my case after starting DisplayFusion - trigger open a lot of Windows and this is very convenient but not always.

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:34:01 GMT

@MarkOTeam: Let's move this to a new discussions topic (or email) so we don't take up too much space in the comments for the how-to guide. Could you post a new Discussions topic, or send a support request and include a backup of the settings from the affected machine?

Thanks!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:39:36 GMT

Quote:

@MarkOteam: Are your Triggers for the Office apps set to use Window Created, or Window Focused?

Hi, Word and Outlook are on Window Focused.
All the other triggers are set to Window Created.

@KEITH LAMMERS (BFS) anything you can suggest, Outlook messages opening on the screen 2 maximised is a big issue for my customer.

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:44:13 GMT

@MarkOteam: Are your Triggers for the Office apps set to use Window Created, or Window Focused?

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:51:50 GMT

Quote:

Ah ok, gotcha! Could you add this to the Window Text condition in the Trigger rule? (make sure to include the dash in front)

-"Choose a date"

So if the current Window Text is set to

"Microsoft Word"

, the whole thing would look like this:

"Microsoft Word" -"Choose a date"

Thank you, this has worked for not maximising a 2nd word window. However our customer says that Word doesn't always move to monitor 2 (the righthand screen) maximised as the trigger says to do.

We also tried DF for moving opened Outlook message to monitor 2 (the righthand screen)
but had to take it off as there was sometimes a delay, 2 seconds for it to move.

I have enabled logging and attach the logs.

Can you take a look at the log and make any suggestions for our Word, Excel trigger being reliable and Outlook trigger to move as fast as possible.

thank you.

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:29:00 GMT

Quote:

Is there a way to trigger when I plug my laptop into a dock with two monitors? I often disconnect/reconnect during the day and it would be nice if the windows that are already open would automatically snap to the monitor they used to be on. I've set up a Window Position Profile but I need to execute it manually each time I connect to the dock.

Edit: I worked it out. I learned that if I set up a Monitor Profile, I can attach my Window Position Profile to it.

Can you provide more detail about how you worked it out? I have both Monitor Profiles set up and Window Position Profiles but haven't been able to switch between position profiles automatically.

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:18:15 GMT

Ah ok, gotcha! Could you add this to the Window Text condition in the Trigger rule? (make sure to include the dash in front)

-"Choose a date"

So if the current Window Text is set to

"Microsoft Word"

, the whole thing would look like this:

"Microsoft Word" -"Choose a date"

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:52:54 GMT

Hi Kieth.. sorry for that.. the date picker is a word plugin we have. that when you hit 'date insert' button a box opens that lets you select a date to insert into document. It's that window that is maximising. I've attached screen shot showing, it not maximised.

Any way to make it not maximise that seconday window from Word?

Mark.

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:20:28 GMT

Forgive my ignorance, but could you tell me how to open that date picker window in Word? I can't find it for the life of me!

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:16:43 GMT

@Keith Lammers any ideas for this?
thank you
Mark.

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:12:54 GMT

Quote:

@MarkOTeam: I would set it back to "Always" instead of "Once-Per-Process" and then add this to the Window Text condition:

" - Word"

That will make it only match windows that have stuff like this in the title "Document1 - Word" which should only be the main document windows, and not the child windows.

@Eric888: There isn't an "on drag" Trigger Event, sorry!

Thank you, with Text condition " - Word " the child window still opens up maximised, which is a date picker. The title of that window is 'Chose a date...' is there a way to make it not expand that window?

Thanks Mark

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:31:09 GMT

@MarkOTeam: I would set it back to "Always" instead of "Once-Per-Process" and then add this to the Window Text condition:

" - Word"

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:32:13 GMT

Hi there
Is there a means to add a trigger like "on-drag"?
Basically, I would like to make windows semi-transparent while dragged (and back to normal after that)
TIA

RE: Working with Triggers

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:25:01 GMT

Hi when i had windows focused, in word if another Word dialoug box opened, like a date insert we have from a plugin, it would maximise that date insert box.. taking it off focused stoped it from doing that.
but still it's not consistent. Now when open Word app, doesn't move. Open a Word doc, and it will move..
I've got it on Window Focused, once per-Process name.
stop processing triggers if this on matches