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Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

| >   Personally I've never made a call to GetStartupInfo.
|
| Neither do I, as, as I mentioned, you can change the size of the window
| *without* changing its current minimized (or maximized) state.
|
| Im other words: you (as the programmer) need to *explicitily override* the
| windows current state (minimized for our story) to get the problem your
| script attempts to fix.
|

   I think you misunderstood. I've never called
GetStartupInfo from my own software. GetStartupInfo
is not something a script might call and startup info is
not something that Windows somehow applies to
software when starting up. If I resize my software
program window at startup I'm not going against an
action by Windows. GetStartupInfo is an API function
that a software programmer can call at startup, and
must call if they want to know about your special
shortcut in order to respond to it. In other words,
minimizing doesn't happen passively. Windows sets
any window preference data and a program can access
that data if the programmer wants to write such a
function.
  Like setting the window to where it was when it was
last closed, it's functionality that a programmer can
add to their software but that doesn't happen by
itself.
  So if I want to respect the custom request from the
shortcut I have to write an extra function to check that.
Thus, the likelihood of someone using such a shortcut is
very much relevant.

| > I don't write software that people want to be minimized at open,
|
| Wrong attitude I'm afraid.

   That's an easy thing for you to say, given that
you're not the one who has to write the code. I
doubt that anyone has ever tried to start any
of my software minimized. There'd be no point. In
fact, out of consideration I code to avoid that.
If the program was closed when minimized I make
the window open to where it last was before being
minimized, because I can safely assume that's what
people want. I don't respect rules merely for the
sake of it.

   I'm happy to change my software for you, though.
If you're willing to pay for my time I'll write you a
special version of any of my freeware. :)

| I just checked VLC player, and it indeed disregards my selection to either
| start minimized or maximized.   Nice. That means that when you use it to
| play a (background) song you *always* have to minimize that window.  I 
don't
| think the programmer ever thought of that situation.  So much for the "I
| know what the real world needs" attitude of that programmer I guess .... 
:-D

  And VLC works well. And it's free. Maybe you'd also
like to pay for that programmer's time to make you
a "compliant" version of VLC. On the other hand, it's
also open source. So if you feel so strongly and want
to "look a gift horse in the mouth" then you really
owe it to yourself to fork the code and write
a new version of VLC that behaves "properly".

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I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows Marco Saraceno <marco.saraceno78@gmail.com> - 2017-02-11 04:49 -0800
  Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-02-11 20:24 +0700
  Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows Marco Saraceno <marco.saraceno78@gmail.com> - 2017-02-11 07:00 -0800
    Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution andiconofied windows "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-02-11 16:08 +0100
      Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution andiconofied windows "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-11 16:13 +0100
        Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution andiconofied windows "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-11 10:29 -0500
          Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution andiconofied windows "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-11 21:56 +0100
            Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution andiconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-11 16:58 -0500
              Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution andiconofied windows "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-12 11:27 +0100
    Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-11 10:14 -0500
      Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-02-11 17:03 +0100
        Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-11 14:07 -0500
          Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-02-11 21:11 +0100
            Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-11 17:45 -0500
              Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-02-12 11:22 +0100
                Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-12 09:25 -0500
                Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-02-12 17:39 +0100
                Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-12 12:39 -0500
  Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows Marco Saraceno <marco.saraceno78@gmail.com> - 2017-02-11 10:22 -0800
    Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-11 14:09 -0500
      Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-11 15:51 -0500
        Re: I need a script to launch Whatsap.exe in automatic execution and iconofied windows "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-11 16:56 -0500

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