Winamp Window Title

[nismo505]

Window.Find cannot find the winamp's title and store it in %hWnd% variable. I need to find a way to minimize winamp. Does Window.Find works with wildcards? like *winamp*? Please someone help. Thanks in advace.

[Corey]

Re: Winamp Window Title

Shows up fine here... Shows up as Playlist. (no matter what type of file I run)

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[nismo505]

Re: Winamp Window Title

What do you mean it shows up as playlist? I want to minimize, restore winamp, but since winamp's window title includes the song's name so the name is always changing.

[Corey]

Re: Winamp Window Title

Like I say, over here it shows up as playlist no matter what's playing, I'm not sure how to explain it any simpler than that. Hope that helps, if not maybe one of the other users has some insight to offer, that's about the extent of my knowledge on the topic...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[nismo505]

Re: Winamp Window Title

Hhmm, I am running winamp2 and it doesnt show up as "playlist". Are you using winamp3?

[Corey]

Re: Winamp Window Title

Yes.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[nismo505]

Re: Winamp Window Title

is there another way to get the window's title? i guess Window.Find can only take exact titles. ams should add wildcard feature into window.find in the next version.

[Corey]

Re: Winamp Window Title

It currently already get's all open windows titles into a delimited string, you can easily search that string using wildcards...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[TJ_Tigger]

Re: Winamp Window Title

I use Winamp 2.whatever is current and the problem I am finding is that there are multiple windows listed when you get titles. Here are the ones that were listed on my system when I was playing a song.

Winamp Minibrowser
Winamp Equalizer
Winamp Playlist Editor
1. Artist names - song title - Winamp

I captured the open windows and wrote the names to a text file for easier reading. I then found the one that contained the song title by doing a search for "- Winamp" and tried to minimize it. It said that hwnd does not point to a valid window title. I then tried all the others and those did not work either. Don't know what is going on but I will continue to play around with it

[nismo505]

Re: Winamp Window Title

How do i search for "- winamp" string in a delimiter variable and pass it on to the minimize function?

[Lorne]

Re: Winamp Window Title

Create a loop to check each item in the delimited string, one at a time.

To check each item, just use a String - Find action to search for "- Winamp" in it. If it's found, then you have a match, so use that window handle.

Note that Winamp's window can be configured to do some unusual things, like only appear in the system tray, and such. I doubt that any of those settings will interfere with the ability to get the window handle or minimize the window, but you never know.

[nismo505]

Re: Winamp Window Title

thanks Lorne, but that's what i did and the Find delimiter function returns an inaccurate index position. Like the winamp main window is positioned at 1, but the Find delimiter returns a value of 92 or sometimes 0. i made a edit box and a list box to check the values. i also made winamp to appear in both taskbar and system tray and the results are the same.

[nismo505]

Re: Winamp Window Title

function returns an inaccurate index position. Like the winamp main window is positioned at 1, but the Find delimiter returns a value of 92 or sometimes 0. i made a edit box and a list box to check the values. i also made winamp to appear in both taskbar and system tray and the results are the same.

[Lorne]

Re: Winamp Window Title

There is no "find delimiter" action. You should be creating a while loop, with String.Count Delimited Strings and String.GetDelimitedString, and String.Find to check for a match once you have the item.

Post the code you used. It sounds like you had a flaw in your algorithm.

[nismo505]

Re: Winamp Window Title

On page initialize

%WndTitles% = Window.GetTitles

On button mouse click

%FoundPos% = String.Find ("%WndTitles%","- Winamp", 0)
%NewString% = String.GetDelimitedString ("%WndTitles%", ";;", %FoundPos%)
Window.Minimize (%NewString%)

Sorry i don't know how to make a while loop. Please show me how.