AlwaysOnTop with some rules question

[Hiney]

My small program is now set to be alwaysontop but i want if someone is opening another window i dont want my window to block them. So I turned alwaysontop off and now it sends it ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK

I spent some time reading here https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinSet.htm but did not find an option for my window to not be sent all the way to the back, just keep it within the layer just like windows does for other programs

any tips?

[Delta Pythagorean]

You can use WinSet, Top to make the window on top but not AlwaysOnTop

[Hiney]

You can use WinSet, Top to make the window on top but not AlwaysOnTop

Goal is that when my gui is open and a user makes active another program (say my gui is open and user clicks on his firefox tab or any tab) my gui should not be sent all the way to the back of the stack, when they minimize ff they should see my program

winset, top,, title ... does not do that

[Hiney]

So the effect I want requires me to remove the +ToolWindow

Now i need to try to remove the icon from the taskbar, if i cant it is no big deal but maybe someone can help

[jeeswg]

It may be that if you set the window style to include WS_CHILD := 0x40000000, then it will not have a taskbar button.

[Hiney]

It may be that if you set the window style to include WS_CHILD := 0x40000000, then it will not have a taskbar button.

can you share sample code?

I tried adding WS_CHILD := 0x40000000 to the start of the script but it did not get rid of the taskbar icon

[Hiney]

Here is some code and the challenge

This one will not load a taskbar icon but as soon as you overlay it with any other window it gets sent all the way to the back

#NoEnv
#SingleInstance Force
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
Gui, -Caption +ToolWindow
Gui Add, Text, x160 y64 w120 h93 +0x200, ESC to close

Gui Show, w481 h381, Window
Return

ESC::ExitApp


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This one will stay in place when you load a window over it, but it creates a taskbar icon


#NoEnv
#SingleInstance Force
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
Gui, -Caption +LastFound
Gui Add, Text, x160 y64 w120 h93 +0x200, ESC to close

Gui Show, w481 h381, Window
Return

ESC::ExitApp
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SO can anyone here make it so that it stays in place and does not load a taskbar icon?

Any creative ways to achieve this what looks like an impossible task?

[jeeswg]

To remove the taskbar button, this didn't work:
Gui, -Caption +LastFound +0x40000000
But this did:
Gui, -Caption +LastFound +Owner

See re. +Owner at:
GUI
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Gui.htm#Options

[Hiney]

To remove the taskbar button, this didn't work:
Gui, -Caption +LastFound +0x40000000
But this did:
Gui, -Caption +LastFound +Owner

See re. +Owner at:
GUI
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Gui.htm#Options

incredible! I searched for days, tried so many things, some claimed it is not possible, thank you so very very much