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• Activate App without Windowname
• Active Window Height and Width in Pixels
• Capturing info from Scrolling Screen
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• Change Position of Message and Display Box
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• Find Windows Location on Remote Win95 Machine
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• Get the Size of the Active Window
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• How to get a previously active window
• Hwnd to WinID Function Conversions
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• Minimize All Windows
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• Probe Windows Code
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• Reading Buttons and Child Windows
• Recognize when a Windows Close Box has Ungrayed
• Use WinGetActive to Get Active Window
• WinClose Question
• Window Information EXE Fails to Launch
• Window placement on multi monitor screen
• WinExist and WinWaitClose Problems
• WinIDGet to Handle Changing Window Name
• WinItemize and Dont Show System Hidden Windows
• WinItemize Return Order
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How to Use WinItemize without Displaying System Windows

Keywords: winitemize   WinItemizeEx

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Question:

Is there a way to list only the applications listed in the task bar? The WinItemize( ) command lists ALL active windows, including many system-type windows. Is there any way to eliminate this?

Answer:

Go thru the WinItemize list, and ignore the ones where WinState("windowname") returns @HIDDEN , as in the example below.

Or easier yet, use WinItemizeEx function.

Here's some sample code:

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windoze=WinItemize()
wincount=ItemCount(windoze,@tab)

AskItemList("Before",windoze,@tab,@sorted,@single)

current=1
while 1
   thiswin=ItemExtract(current,windoze,@tab)
   if WinState(thiswin)==@HIDDEN
	windoze=ItemRemove(current,windoze,@tab)
	wincount=wincount-1
   else
	current=current+1
   endif
   if current>wincount then break
endwhile
AskItemList("Intermediate",windoze,@tab,@sorted,@single)

; any maybe you want to add these...
a=ItemLocate("PopMenu",windoze,@tab)
if a!=0 then windoze=ItemRemove(a,WinDoze,@tab)
a=ItemLocate("Program Manager",windoze,@tab)
if a!=0 then windoze=ItemRemove(a,WinDoze,@tab)

AskItemList("After",windoze,@tab,@sorted,@single)

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Article ID:   W13378

Filename:   WinItemize and Dont Show System Hidden Windows.txt

File Created: 1999:04:15:16:53:38

Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:53:38