Toggle the EG window (show/hide) ?

[skribb]

I am now running 0.5 rc4 and have noticed that launching the exe while EG is running won't show the window, as it did on earlier versions.

I had an AHK hotkey for toggling the EG window, and I'd very much like this to work again. I could not find a global hotkey in EG to toggle the EG window.

for reference, My AHK is the following

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IfWinNotActive, EventGhost ahk_class wxWindowNR
	Run, C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\EventGhost.exe, C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost
Else IfWinActive, EventGhost ahk_class wxWindowNR
	WinMinimize, EventGhost ahk_class wxWindowNR
Return

I am going to try Avoid the issue of sending keys by invoking the tray menu item via PostMessage/SendMessage and WM_COMMAND/WM_SYSCOMMAND, as per https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31971

EIDT: minimizing the window via AHK still works, FYI.

[kgschlosser]

Hmmmm. I will have to take a look.

[skribb]

Hmmmm. I will have to take a look.

much obliged

[kgschlosser]

ok slap this bad larry into your EG installation. Overwrite the existing file.

[skribb]

ok slap this bad larry into your EG installation. Overwrite the existing file.

EG wont start now

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  File "EventGhost.pyw", line 53, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\__init__.py", line 31, in <module>
    import Cli
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Cli.py", line 30, in <module>
    from NamedPipe import is_eg_running
ImportError: cannot import name is_eg_running

[kgschlosser]

Doah!

That's my goof. It's not a biggie. I will get a new file to ya in an hour when I get home. I must have grabbed the Client.py from a version I had been working on. Didn't know I had actually done any modifications to my installed version. I must have at some point.

Sorry about that. If you go to the downloads page you can grab the source for the version you have installed. Open up the zip and copy the client.py file into your eg folder. It will fix the issue.

[skribb]

Doah!

That's my goof. It's not a biggie. I will get a new file to ya in an hour when I get home. I must have grabbed the Client.py from a version I had been working on. Didn't know I had actually done any modifications to my installed version. I must have at some point.

Sorry about that. If you go to the downloads page you can grab the source for the version you have installed. Open up the zip and copy the client.py file into your eg folder. It will fix the issue.

I'm a bit confused. Should I wait for a new Cli.py from you, or re-download client.py from https://github.com/EventGhost/EventGhos ... .0-rc4.zip ?

[kgschlosser]

sorry for getting this to you late. got wrapped up in something else when i got home.

[skribb]

sorry for getting this to you late. got wrapped up in something else when i got home.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

[kgschlosser]

i am assuming this

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

means it works.

[skribb]

i am assuming this

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

means it works.

I can't toggle back and forth actually (which isn't really needed in a real scenario, but while testing it, it poops out if i toggle the window repeatedly), but at least it shows the window if it hasn't been active for a while.

so yes, it works.

[kgschlosser]

Yes you can toggle back and forth.


EventGhost.exe -hide

[kgschlosser]

And we are aware of an issue with the command line stuff. We are going to be releasing a new version of EG which should have that issue fixed. I can send you a test version to see if it is solved if you like?

[skribb]

No what I mean is if I toggle back and forth repeatedly in quick succession, the window won't show anymore, and I have to click on some other window (or select the taskbar with the mouse) for the toggle function to "kick in" again. I think it MIGHT be a GUI bug in Win7 tho as it seems I have it with another app as well.

I've now added to my script that after minimizing EG, it selects the taskbar, so now I can toggle the EG window quickly

as per the below:

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;;;;;;  EventGhost hide/show toggle
Ins::
IfWinNotActive, EventGhost ahk_class wxWindowNR
	Run, C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\EventGhost.exe, C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost
Else IfWinActive, EventGhost ahk_class wxWindowNR
	WinMinimize, EventGhost ahk_class wxWindowNR
	WinActivate, ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
Return

[kgschlosser]

Ok cool. So not a bug in EventGhost. I know there is an issue with the named pipe. Which is what we use to send cli arguments to an already running eg session. It will bomb out sometimes. But you end up with an orphaned EG process when this happens.

So if you experience this we already know about the problem.