Minimize/Restore Windows on Current Monitor

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Description	This script will minimize all of the windows on the current monitor, and then will restore them when the script is run a second time.
Language	C# (.Net)
Minimum Version	7.1.0+
Created By	Thomas Malloch (BFS)
Contributors	-
Date Created	Mar 6, 2015
Date Last Modified	Mar 6, 2015

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using System; using System.Drawing; // 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 const string ScriptStateSetting = "CursorMonitorScriptState"; private const string MinimizedWindowsSetting = "CursorMonitorMinimizedWindows"; private const string MinimizedState = "0"; private const string NormalizeState = "1"; public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle) { //check to see if we are minimizing if(IsScriptInMinimizeState()) { //this will store the windows that we are minimizing so we can restore them later string minimizedWindows = ""; //get the monitor that the cursor is on uint monitorId = BFS.Monitor.GetMonitorIDByXY(BFS.Input.GetMousePositionX(), BFS.Input.GetMousePositionY()); //loop through all the visible windows on the cursor monitor foreach(IntPtr window in BFS.Window.GetVisibleWindowHandlesByMonitor(monitorId)) { //skip any special DisplayFusion window (taskbar, titlebar buttons) //skip special explorer.exe windows (icons, search) if(BFS.Window.GetClass(window).StartsWith("DF", StringComparison.Ordinal) || BFS.Window.GetClass(window).Equals("WorkerW", StringComparison.Ordinal) || BFS.Window.GetClass(window).Equals("SearchPane", StringComparison.Ordinal)) { continue; } //minimize the window BFS.Window.Minimize(window); //add the window to the list of windows minimizedWindows += window.ToInt64().ToString() + "|"; } //save the list of windows we minimized BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValue(MinimizedWindowsSetting, minimizedWindows); //set the script state to NormalizeState BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValue(ScriptStateSetting, NormalizeState); //exit the script return; } //if we got here, we are in the normalize window state //get the windows that we minimized previously string windows = BFS.ScriptSettings.ReadValue(MinimizedWindowsSetting); //loop through each setting foreach(string window in windows.Split(new char[]{'|'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)) { //try to turn the string into a long value //if we can't convert it, go to the next setting long windowHandleValue; if(!Int64.TryParse(window, out windowHandleValue)) continue; //restore the window BFS.Window.Restore(new IntPtr(windowHandleValue)); } //clear the windows that we saved BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValue(MinimizedWindowsSetting, string.Empty); //set the script to MinimizedState BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValue(ScriptStateSetting, MinimizedState); } //script is in minimize state if there is no setting, or if the setting is equal to MinimizedState private static bool IsScriptInMinimizeState() { string setting = BFS.ScriptSettings.ReadValue(ScriptStateSetting); return (setting.Length == 0) || (setting.Equals(MinimizedState, StringComparison.Ordinal)); } }