Open 3 Sites Maximized on 3 Monitors (Internet Explorer)

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Description	This script will open three Internet Explorer windows with the specified URLs, and move them to monitors 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
Language	C# (.Net)
Minimum Version	7.1.0+
Created By	Keith Lammers (BFS)
Contributors	-
Date Created	Jul 8, 2015
Date Last Modified	Jul 17, 2015

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using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; // The 'windowHandle' parameter will contain the window handle for the: // - Active window when run by hotkey // - Window Location target when run by a Window Location rule // - TitleBar Button owner when run by a TitleBar Button // - Jump List owner when run from a Taskbar Jump List // - Currently focused window if none of these match public static class DisplayFusionFunction { //this is the function that we will use to enumerate through child windows [DllImport("user32.dll", PreserveSig = true, SetLastError = false, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)] private static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr hwndParent, IntPtr hwndChildAfter, string lpszClass, IntPtr lpszWindow ); public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle) { string site1 = "https://www.displayfusion.com/"; string site2 = "https://www.checkcentral.cc/"; string site3 = "https://www.voicebot.net/"; //open site1 and move it to monitor 1 BFS.Application.Start("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe", site1); BFS.General.ThreadWait(3000); BFS.Window.MoveToMonitorMaximized(1, GetIE11WindowByURL(site1)); BFS.General.ThreadWait(1000); //open site2 and move it to monitor 2 BFS.Application.Start("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe", site2); BFS.General.ThreadWait(3000); BFS.Window.MoveToMonitorMaximized(2, GetIE11WindowByURL(site2)); BFS.General.ThreadWait(1000); //open site3 and move it to monitor 3 BFS.Application.Start("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe", site3); BFS.General.ThreadWait(3000); BFS.Window.MoveToMonitorMaximized(3, GetIE11WindowByURL(site3)); } //this function will accept a url and try to find an IE11 window with this url open in it private static IntPtr GetIE11WindowByURL(string url) { //enumerate through all windows foreach(IntPtr handle in BFS.Window.GetAllWindowHandles()) { //if it isn't a IE window, continue if(BFS.Application.GetMainFileByWindow(handle).IndexOf("iexplore.exe", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == -1) continue; //if it's not the type of IE window we want, continue if(!BFS.Window.GetClass(handle).Equals("IEFrame", StringComparison.Ordinal)) continue; //we found the IE window, try to find the address bar by searching through the levels. The address bar's class is called "Edit" IntPtr addressBarHandle = FindWindowEx(handle, IntPtr.Zero, "WorkerW", IntPtr.Zero); addressBarHandle = FindWindowEx(addressBarHandle, IntPtr.Zero, "ReBarWindow32", IntPtr.Zero); addressBarHandle = FindWindowEx(addressBarHandle, IntPtr.Zero, "Address Band Root", IntPtr.Zero); addressBarHandle = FindWindowEx(addressBarHandle, IntPtr.Zero, "Edit", IntPtr.Zero); //if we couldn't find the address bar, continue if(addressBarHandle == IntPtr.Zero) continue; //if the addressbar contains the url, return the parent window if(BFS.Window.GetText(addressBarHandle).Equals(url, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) return handle; } //if we got this far we couldnt find anything. return IntPtr.Zero (null) return IntPtr.Zero; } }