How to set autohide of taskbar?

[molitar]

Ok I been working with a Media Player Classic script with a maximize but when I maximize I wish to set the taskbar to auto-hide so the screen will truely be maximized. How can I do in EG?

[Bartman]

you should put the player in fullscreen mode not maximize the window.

[molitar]

you should put the player in fullscreen mode not maximize the window.

Well when I do fullscreen it goes to my HDTV.. I don't always want that.. so this method I can determine fullscreen on monitor or fullscreen on HDTV.. because using minimal view with maximization is the same as fullscreen.

[Pako]

For the hide and unhide of the taskbar you can use the following scripts:

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#Script Hide Taskbar
from win32gui import SetWindowPos
from ctypes import windll
TOGGLE_HIDEWINDOW = 0x80
handleTaskBar = windll.user32.FindWindowA("Shell_TrayWnd", "")
SetWindowPos(handleTaskBar, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, TOGGLE_HIDEWINDOW)

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#Script Unhide Taskbar
from win32gui import SetWindowPos
from ctypes import windll
TOGGLE_UNHIDEWINDOW = 0x40
handleTaskBar = windll.user32.FindWindowA("Shell_TrayWnd", "")
SetWindowPos(handleTaskBar, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, TOGGLE_UNHIDEWINDOW)

Pako

[molitar]

Thanks again Pako for the help!

[molitar]

Pako, this worked great but ran into one little snag.. one of the custom trays I am running won't auto hide and does not have a handle so I can hide it. But I did find if I set the Taskbar to auto-hide the hooked software will hide also so how can I toggle the Auto-Hide of the taskbar?

[Livin]

Pako,
this would be a good Action for EG. Maybe you could ask Bitmonster to add it to the next released build?

[Pako]

@molitar:
Well.
I made a small plugin with which you can control the taskbar.
I discovered, that in Windows 7 is no longer possible for the taskbar disable feature "Allways On Top".
Thus, even in my plugin are these options only available in earlier versions of Windows.

@Livin:
No comment.

Pako

[molitar]

@molitar:
Well.
I made a small plugin with which you can control the taskbar.
I discovered, that in Windows 7 is no longer possible for the taskbar disable feature "Allways On Top".
Thus, even in my plugin are these options only available in earlier versions of Windows.

@Livin:
No comment.

Pako

Excellent thanks.. yeah Microsoft just keeps making windows have less and less customizations.. IE lost it's customization, taskbar lost it's, classic start menu gone unless you use classic shell 3rd party software to get it back. Thanks for the plugin.