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Fade All Monitors Except Primary

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Fade All Monitors Except Primary

Description	This script will fade all monitors except the Primary monitor. When running it a second time, they will return to normal.
Language	C#
Minimum Version	7.2.0+
Created By	NetMage
Contributors	-
Date Created	Jun 26, 2015
Date Last Modified	Jun 26, 2015

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using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;
using System.Collections.Generic;

// Fade all monitors except the primary monitor to black over a two second period
// Adjust

// Based entirely on Thomas Malloch's very brilliant Dim All Monitors Except Primary
// Hope he will forgive the change to K&R style and general clean-up to be more abbreviated

// 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 {
	private static readonly string SettingName = "BlackenMonitors_Running";
	public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle) {
		//toggle the setting from running to not running, and vice versa
		ToggleSetting();

//if we are exiting, exit
		if (!IsRunning())
			return;

//add all but the primary monitor to the list of monitors that will be dimmed
		List<Form> forms = new List<Form>();
		uint primaryMonitorID = BFS.Monitor.GetPrimaryMonitorID();
		foreach(uint id in BFS.Monitor.GetMonitorIDs()) {
			if(id != primaryMonitorID)
				forms.Add(new TransparentForm(id));
		}

//this will open the forms we added to the list by using our custom application context
		Application.Run(new MultipleFormApplicationContext(forms));
	}

//this function allows us to see the currect state of the script
	private static bool IsRunning() {
		return BFS.ScriptSettings.ReadValue(SettingName) == "running";
	}

//this function toggles the script settings from running to not running
	private static void ToggleSetting() {
		BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValue(SettingName, IsRunning() ? "not" : "running");
	}

//extend the ApplicationContext class to support opening multiple forms
	private class MultipleFormApplicationContext : ApplicationContext {
		internal MultipleFormApplicationContext(List<Form> forms) {
			//open each of the forms, and add our closing event to them
			foreach(Form form in forms) {
				form.FormClosed += OnFormClosed;
				form.Show();
			}
		}

//when all the forms close, make sure to exit the application
		private void OnFormClosed(object sender, EventArgs e) {
			if(Application.OpenForms.Count == 0)
				ExitThread();
		}
	}

//extend the Form class to get the behavior we want
	private class TransparentForm : Form {
		//this will tell us what monitor to open on
		private uint MonitorId;
		private uint FadeWait;
		private decimal TransparentIncrement;

//this will tell us our current transparency
		private decimal Transparency;

//the contructor for our class
		internal TransparentForm(uint monitorId) {	
			this.MonitorId = monitorId;
			this.Transparency = 0m;
			const decimal FadeTime = 2.0m; // seconds
			this.TransparentIncrement = 2m; // percent
			this.FadeWait = (uint)(this.TransparentIncrement * 10m * FadeTime);

this.SuspendLayout();

//setup the layout of this form
			this.BackColor = Color.Black;
			this.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
			this.ShowInTaskbar = false;

//setup the form load event
			this.Load += Form_Load;

this.ResumeLayout(false);
		}

private void Form_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
			//add a windows style to the current style that will
			//tell this window to ignore user input
			uint style = (uint)BFS.Window.GetWindowStyleEx(this.Handle);
			BFS.Window.SetWindowStyleEx((BFS.WindowEnum.WindowStyleEx)(style | (uint)BFS.WindowEnum.WindowStyleEx.WS_EX_TRANSPARENT | (uint)BFS.WindowEnum.WindowStyleEx.WS_EX_LAYERED), this.Handle);

//move the window to the desired monitor
			Rectangle bounds = BFS.Monitor.GetMonitorBoundsByID(this.MonitorId);
			BFS.Window.SetSizeAndLocation(this.Handle, bounds.X, bounds.Y, bounds.Width, bounds.Height);

BFS.Window.SetAlwaysOnTop(this.Handle, true);
			BFS.Window.SetTransparency(this.Handle, this.Transparency);

//start up a thread to listen for an exit event
			new Thread(new ThreadStart(ExitListener)).Start();
		}

private void ExitListener() {
			while(true) {
				//if we should close, tell the main thread to close the form
				if(IsRunning()) {
					// Fade to Black
					if (this.Transparency < 100m) {
						this.Transparency += this.TransparentIncrement;
						BFS.Window.SetTransparency(this.Handle, this.Transparency);
					}

//sleep
					BFS.General.ThreadWait((this.Transparency < 100m) ? this.FadeWait : 250u);	
				} else {
					if (this.Transparency > 0m) {
						// Fade back in
						this.Transparency -= this.TransparentIncrement;
						BFS.Window.SetTransparency(this.Handle, this.Transparency);

//sleep
						BFS.General.ThreadWait((this.Transparency < 100m) ? this.FadeWait : 250u);
					} else {
						try {
							this.Invoke((MethodInvoker) delegate {
								this.Close();
							});
						} catch { //something went wrong, ignore
						}

break;
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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