Well, while Im sharing useful steps for animating files, I ran across another one that others might find useful.
I have one old game that looks best at 640x480, but the bottom of the screen goes in back of the Windows XP taskbar when you launch the game at this resolution. The fix was to autohide the taskbar when I was playing the game. However, I hate having the taskbar hidden, so I only wanted to do this while the game was being played and then restore the locked taskbar after the game was finished. And I didnt want to do this manually every time I played the game.
The solution was the AutoHotKey program. I tried to write my own script to do this but it didnt work consistently, so I found one on their forum. The following script was saved as autohide.ahk and hides the WindowsXP taskbar:
Code:
;Turn on auto-hide icons but set it off in registry for next reboot to prevent lost icons from auto-log on
Run, RunDLL32.EXE shell32.dll`,Options_RunDLL 1
WinWait, Taskbar and Start Menu Properties
Sleep, 100
Control, Check,, Button2, Taskbar and Start Menu Properties ; Tick Auto-Hide the taskbar
Sleep, 100
ControlSend, Button11, {SPACE}, Taskbar and Start Menu Properties ; OK
;Sleep, 100
;RegWrite, REG_DWORD, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer, EnableAutoTray, 0
The following script was saved as autounhide.ahk and is used to restore the taskbar after it is hidden:
Code:
Run, RunDLL32.EXE shell32.dll`,Options_RunDLL 1
WinWait, Taskbar and Start Menu Properties
Sleep, 100
Control, UnCheck,, Button2, Taskbar and Start Menu Properties ; Tick Auto-Hide the taskbar
Sleep, 100
ControlSend, Button11, {SPACE}, Taskbar and Start Menu Properties ; OK
;Sleep, 100
;RegWrite, REG_DWORD, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer, EnableAutoTray, 0
HTH!!!!
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