Do something every time a window is opened?

[andreasf]

Hello, I use this

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WinSet, Style, -0xC00000, A

as a hotkey to hide a window's title bar. And that code is contained inside the main script that runs on my Windows all the time.

What I want is to WinSet that on a certain application every time it opens, without breaking the rest of my script functionality.

How can I do that? Thank you.

[Osprey]

If your script currently contains only hotkeys, you can do this:

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MyWinTitle = Untitled - Notepad

While(true)
{
   WinWait, %MyWinTitle%
   WinSet, Style, -0xC00000
}

If you have more than just hotkeys and can't have the script waiting for that window, you can do this and add the other commands that you need to process to the while loop:

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MyWinTitle = Untitled - Notepad

While(true)
{
   If WinExist(MyWinTitle)
     WinSet, Style, -0xC00000

   ; Other non-hotkey things that I want to monitor while the script is running

   Sleep, 1000
}

[andreasf]

If your script currently contains only hotkeys, you can do this:

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MyWinTitle = Untitled - Notepad

While(true)
{
   WinWait, %MyWinTitle%
   WinSet, Style, -0xC00000
}

If you have more than just hotkeys and can't have the script waiting for that window, you can do this and add the other commands that you need to process to the while loop:

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MyWinTitle = Untitled - Notepad

While(true)
{
   If WinExist(MyWinTitle)
     WinSet, Style, -0xC00000

   ; Other non-hotkey things that I want to monitor while the script is running

   Sleep, 1000
}

Thank you Osprey bus unfortunately this will not cut it because of the complexity of my script. I tried setting a loop but it doesn't work.. any idea why?

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SetTimer, app

...

app:
if WinExist(ahk_exe app.exe)
{
	WinSet, Style, -0xC00000, ahk_exe app.exe
	; Sleep, 100 (with and without this)
}
return

[Osprey]

Your script is probably exiting when it finishes all commands because you have nothing to prevent it from doing so. Add the following to the top of your script to tell it to not exit when it reaches the end:

#Persistent