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In a standalone player, is it possible to force minimizing the screen by scripting?

What I am trying to do is minimizing the screen when some event happens, and then maximising the screen whe I read a value from a text file.

Maybe i have to write a plugin, in that case how does it work?

Thanks

Answer 1

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You can do anything with window by using WinAPI. But you have to get window handle to do it. In usual .NET application you can get them by this way:

var handle Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowHandle

But it doesn't work in unity. So, i use another way to get the handle. I enumerate all windows by function EnumWindowsProc and i get process id of each window by GetWindowThreadProcessId. When i find window with pid, that equals to pid of unity i can manipulate by unity window. Resize, move, minimize, etc.

To minimize window you can use ShowWindow function.

To use WinAPI functions you have to import them:

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
private static extern int GetWindowThreadProcessId(HandleRef handle, out int processId);

private delegate bool EnumWindowsProc(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr lParam);

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
private static extern bool EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc callback, IntPtr extraData);

answered Dec 08 '11 at 08:05 PM

green_core
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Hi green_core. I have tried your method and when I find the matching process id to Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id the hWnd does not seem to be the window. Is there something I am doing wrong here.

Jun 05 at 10:58 AM Sabretoothy

Your callback, which is EnumWindowsProc, is called for each window. As a parameter of function you receive hWnd, which is a handle of window. You should get process id of this window by GetWindowThreadProcessId function. To put hWnd into the function you should wrap it into HandleRef. You can do it like this: var obj = new object(); var hRef = new HandleRef(obj, hWnd); So. After this put it into GetWindowThreadProcessId and compare result with your ProcessId. If they equal - bingo! :) You've just found your window. Then return false to interrupt the enumeration of windows. If they don't equal, you should return true to continue enumeration.

I hope it would be helpful for you.

Jun 05 at 12:42 PM green_core

That sorted it thank you. I was missing the step of returning false to interup the enumeration after I had found the matching Process ID.

Jun 05 at 03:05 PM Sabretoothy

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Answer 2

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http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Screen.SetResolution.html

Switch that boolean argument to True for fullscreen and False for windowed.

answered Dec 08 '11 at 07:46 PM

cj_coimbra
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And the width and height arguments to resize the window of course...

Dec 08 '11 at 07:52 PM cj_coimbra

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