[WDX] Autorun Plugin: Run commands/set envvars on TC start

[zhxeeaa]

It seems to me that the conversation derailed here:

Apparently so.

I was saying that I have never observed focus only being lost by switching to another window and not by minimizing.

Clearly.

From my experience a window always loses focus when minimized. However, it seems you misunderstood my point as me saying that I never saw a window lose focus by switching to another window.

That's exactly how I understood you.

2zhxeeaa
So they would write that the title should be changed. Then why check the activity? Just change in the loop:

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While 1
  ShellExec '%COMMANDER_PATH%\Utils\TCFS2\TCFS2.exe' '/ei "settext(`My HEADER`)"'
  Sleep 5000
Wend

I think this problem is the same as the fs2 of TCFS2 that I encountered before to hide the title bar and lose the Windows TaskBar.

That's a whole other problem. See my answer below. I solved this problem a long time ago with AutoIt script for restoring the window when you move the mouse pointer to the upper left corner of the screen.

Thanks!
But compared to your solution, I feel that TCIMG is better. It will fixed the title and cannot see any flashing or changes.
I also hidden the title bar, but Taskbar still shows a long string of title, but it is not a problem now.

LoadLibrary %COMMANDER_PATH%\Addons\TCFS2\TCFS2Tools.dll
ShellExec "%COMMANDER_PATH%\Addons\TCFS2\TCFS2.exe" "/ei mm0"
shellexec "%COMMANDER_PATH%\Addons\TCIMG\TCIMG.exe" "tityn=0 title=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~✿~~~~𝓣𝓒~~~~✿||insystem<>"

In fact, TCIMG also has instructions to hide menu bars, but it looks like TCFS2 is better than it, so I mix these commands and use it.
Now the only shortcoming is that there will be a hidden title bar at the beginning of the TC, but this is much better than losing Taskbar.

[Fla$her]

2zhxeeaa
Why are you quoting the entire post?

It will fixed the title and cannot see any flashing or changes.

By flashing, do you mean the text change itself? If you hold down Ctrl+R, you should see. Or there is a very small delay.
You can change the delay of 5000 to something more modest (for example, 20-40), but this will not save you from 100% hiding the moment of changing the text.
If you prefer the resident execution of the utility, then instead of the plugin loop, you can use the TCFS2 loop, combining it with hiding the title bar:

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ShellExec '%COMMANDER_PATH%\Addons\TCFS2\TCFS2.exe' '/ei mm0 /ef "loop(settext(`MY TITLE`) && delay(5))"'

With a delay of 5 milliseconds, you should at least not see any changes to the text in the taskbar. You will most likely see it in the title bar.

The author, by the way, is not against adding a command to change the title. So later it will be possible to use her without using third-party utilities.

[zhxeeaa]

2zhxeeaa
Why are you quoting the entire post?

It will fixed the title and cannot see any flashing or changes.

By flashing, do you mean the text change itself? If you hold down Ctrl+R, you should see. Or there is a very small delay.
You can change the delay of 5000 to something more modest (for example, 20-40), but this will not save you from 100% hiding the moment of changing the text.
If you prefer the resident execution of the utility, then instead of the plugin loop, you can use the TCFS2 loop, combining it with hiding the title bar:

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ShellExec '%COMMANDER_PATH%\Addons\TCFS2\TCFS2.exe' '/ei mm0 /ef "loop(settext(`MY TITLE`) && delay(5))"'

With a delay of 5 seconds, you should at least not see any changes to the text in the taskbar. You will most likely see it in the title bar.

The author, by the way, is not against adding a command to change the title. So later it will be possible to use her without using third-party utilities.

I have tried "TitleExtraText", but It's not my purpose, I want "replace" not only "extra".

[Fla$her]

I have tried "TitleExtraText", but It's not my purpose, I wan't "replace" not only "extra".

You wan't ... not only ...? Are you sure?
Explain in more detail. I don't understand. settext changes the title completely.
And stop quoting posts, please.

[zhxeeaa]

It's "want" not "wan't"
Sorry, I didn't check it seriously before posting. This symbol ' was added by the Google Translate "cleverly".
"TitleExtraText" at present, it is obvious that can't achieve my purpose until it can provide the function of replacing the original string.

Even if set to delay 5 seconds, I will still see the flash back when TC is opened and first clicked on taskbar, and then it will be OK.
and I have tried 5、50、500，last set to 300,
I will test for a while.

[Fla$her]

until it can provide the function of replacing the original string.

What is it expressed in?

Even if set to delay 5 seconds, I will still see the flash back when TC is opened and first clicked on taskbar, and then it will be OK.
and I have tried 5、50、500，last set to 300

delay(5) is 5 milliseconds, not seconds. 5 s = 5000 ms.

[zhxeeaa]

TitleExtraText add custom text before or after the original title text, and what I want is not to display the original text, just display my Custom text only.
I know it is milliseconds, what I wroted "seconds" is just a habitual error ...

[Fla$her]

and what I want is not to display the original text, just display my Custom text only.

So I wrote:

settext changes the title completely.

[beb]

Since the Autorun Plugin deals with the environment variables it just would be a great thing if it could also process variables within a "classic" cmd syntax regarding extracting part of (substring)/retrieving specific characters from a string variable:
https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-substring.html

• Syntax
  %variable:~start_index%
  %variable:~start_index,end_index%

• This can include negative numbers:
  %variable:~start_index, -end_index%
  %variable:~-start_index,end_index%
  %variable:~-start_index,-end_index%

• start_index Defines the starting point for the string returned, for positive numbers this is the number of characters skipped.
  A negative number will count backwards from the end of the string.
• end_index Defines the end point for the string returned, for positive numbers this is the number of characters to return after the start_index.
  A negative number will count backwards from the end of the string.

The current plugin's implementation (implying using StrLeft StrRight StrLen StrPart StrPos StrReplace StrTrim functions) does not embrace the said classic syntax.

[Fla$her]

does not embrace the said classic syntax.

In what sense does "not embrace"? These functions are sufficient for the implementation of tasks. What the cmd program supports is not at all required to support programs in VB-like syntax like AutoIt, etc. Where did the information about the "classic" syntax come from? This is just a minor aesthetic that does not affect performance improvement in any way, but on the contrary requires additional parsing.

[beb]

2Fla$her
For instance, how would you translate that simple %commander_path:~,-2% (i.e. extract everything of %commander_path% but the last two characters)?

[Fla$her]

StrLeft(COMMANDER_PATH, StrLen(COMMANDER_PATH) - 2)

[beb]

So setting up a simple user-defined variable I would need to use

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COMMANDER_USER_STR = StrLeft(%COMMANDER_PATH%, StrLen(%COMMANDER_PATH%) - 2)
SetEnv /EV COMMANDER_USER_VAR %COMMANDER_USER_STR%

instead of just

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SetEnv /EV COMMANDER_USER_VAR %COMMANDER_PATH:~,-2%

OK then.

[Fla$her]

One line is enough here:

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SetEnv COMMANDER_USER_VAR %"StrLeft(COMMANDER_PATH, StrLen(COMMANDER_PATH) - 2)"

[KozakMak]

can i use DisableMarkedMenuItems in Start menu ?