Saturday 13 March 2021

MoveWindow.exe - Moves a window

This uses the inbuilt compilers in Windows 10 - there are three VB.NET compilers and three C# compilers - just copy each text file into the same folder and double click the batch file to make the program.
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REM MoveWindow.bat
REM This file compiles MoveWindow.vb to MoveWindow.exe
REM MoveWindow changes the position of a window
REM To use 
REM MoveWindow nnnnxnnnn <Windowtitle>
REM E.G.
REM MoveWindow 300x400 Untitled - Notepad
"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\vbc.exe" /target:winexe /out:"%~dp0\MoveWindow.exe" "%~dp0\MoveWindow.vb" /verbose
pause

'MoveWindow.vb
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports Microsoft.Win32

Public Module TopMost
	Public Declare UNICODE Function FindWindowW Lib "user32" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As IntPtr
	Public Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Integer, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal cx As Integer, ByVal cy As Integer, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer
	Public Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
	Public Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2
	Public Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
	Public Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
	Public Const SWP_NOZORDER = &h4

	Sub Main()
		On Error Resume Next
		Dim hWindows as IntPtr
		Dim CmdLine as String
		Dim Ret as Integer
		CmdLine = Command()
		Dim A as String()
		Dim B as String()
		A = Split(CmdLine, Chr(32), 2, 1)
		B = Split(A(0), "x", 2, 1)
		hwindows = FindWindowW(vbNullString, A(1))
		If hwindows = 0 then
			Msgbox(A(1) & " cannot be found.")
		Else
			Ret = SetWindowPos(hwindows, HWND_NOTOPMOST, B(0), B(1), 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE + SWP_NOZORDER)
			If Ret = 0 Then MsgBox("Set Pos Error is " & Err.LastDllError)
		End If
	End Sub
End Module

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