Hi, I have my main PP bar set to auto hide, show on screen bump, and
I wanted my SystemMeter to do the same thing. SystemMeter is on the
same screen edge as the PP bar. At first I thought it would be
easy. First I changed from *Bar Show TheMainBar to a script that had
Bar.Show("TheMainBar") in the first line and SystemMeter.showhide in
the second. Everything works like I want, except for SystemMeter
disappearing when I move my mouse off the bar. So I wrote this
script and set it to run from the Monitor list:
local barVisible
local meterVisible
barVisible = win.visible("TheMainBar")
meterVisible = win.visible("PowerPro SystemMeter Plugin")
if (barVisible == 0 && meterVisible == 1) do
SystemMeter.showhide
endif
It works perfectly, except... Normally I use TweakUI "Focus Follows
Mouse" (W2K SP4), and unless I move my mouse after the PP bar appears
(thus giving focus to the bar), when the script runs, the mouse
cursor moves back to the last app that had focus, thus causing the
bar (and SystemMeter) to disappear. So I turned of "Focus Follows
Mouse". Now, when I switch virtual desktops, if I don't click on a
window on the new desktop before the script runs again, focus goes
back to the last app that had it, thus switching my current virtual
desktop back to the previous one. It seems like it is doing
something like this: Before a script is going to be run, determine
which window has focus and remember it. Then run the script and give
it focus in some hidden window. Then when the script is done, give
focus back to the window that had it before. I thought that maybe
the win.visible was what was causing the focus switching problem, so
I tried passing it a window handle instead, in hopes that with a
window handle for visible (instead of a caption list) the script
wouldn't take focus. I did it like this:
local barHandle
local meterHandle
local barVisible
local meterVisible
barHandle = win.handle("TheMainBar")
meterHandle = win.handle("PowerPro SystemMeter Plugin")
barVisible = win.visible(barHandle)
meterVisible = win.visible(meterHandle)
if (barVisible == 0 && meterVisible == 1) do
SystemMeter.showhide
endif
It didn't change behavior at all. I looked into using
HookWindowEvents, hoping to hook the bar disappearing, but the bar
disappearing isn't destroying a window. All that shows up to the
hook is the activation of the bar. Does anyone have any other ideas
I could try?
As an aside, everything in SystemMeter works, except the CPU meter,
it always shows 0. Does anyone have any ideas on why this would be?
Thank you very much!
Brian Cunningham
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