🚀 go-pugleaf

thanks for the quick reply!

>> Notepad and MSPaint, f.e., minimize to a small rectangle
>> (with system menu) placed at the lower end of the work area.
>
> There is no taskbar available on the new Desktop, so minimized apps have
> nowhere else to go.
>

Yes and that would actually be enough for my current application.
But since all minimized IE windows disappear I can't do it this way :-(

>> I checked with EnumWindows that it's actually still there,
>> minimized and visible, but GetWindowRect tells me that
>> its position is -32000, -32000.
>
> Checking the coodinates of a minimized window is not meaningful since the
> window is not visible to begin with.  Use IsIconic() to determine if a
> window is minimized or not.
>
> Are you calling GetWindowRect() while the window is not minimized?  Where
> exactly are you calling it from?  Is it being called from a thread that is
> associated with the new Desktop?
>

Here is part of my test code. I have a few buttons on my
custom shell window. One of them calls EnumWindows
with the EnumWindowsProc below. The minimized windows
are always found visible and iconized.

When I do this for a minimized Notepad I get a top coordinate of
737, which seems to be correct on a 1024/768 resolution.

IE windows, as I said, seem to be lost. The test code below restores
them however!!

bool IsVisible(HWND hwnd)
{
   RECT rc;
   GetWindowRect(hwnd, &rc);

   if(IsWindowVisible(hwnd) && (rc.right-rc.left) > 0
      && (rc.bottom-rc.top) > 0)
      return true;
   else
      return false;
}

BOOL CALLBACK EnumWindowsProc(HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{
   if(IsVisible(hwnd))
   {
      if(IsIconic(hwnd))
      {
         char buffer[256];
         GetClassName(hwnd, buffer, 255);

         ShowMessage(AnsiString("Found: ") + buffer);

         RECT rc = {0};
         GetWindowRect(hwnd, &rc);
         ShowMessage(rc.top);

         //restore minimized windows
         ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_RESTORE);

      }

      SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);

   }
   return TRUE;
}