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Ankit Koul
Ankit Koul

Reputation: 3

How to minimize window using Ctypes in python

like for maximize we can do like this

elif 'maximize' in query:

 speak('Ok sir!')

 user32 = ctypes.WinDLL('user32')

 SW_MAXIMISE = 3

 hWnd = user32.GetForegroundWindow()

 user32.ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_MAXIMISE)

 speak('done sir!')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1307

Answers (1)

Mark Tolonen
Mark Tolonen

Reputation: 177600

Make sure to set .argtypes and .restype. HWND is defined as a pointer, and 64-bit systems will not pass or return the parameter properly as ctypes assumes int (32-bit) if you don't specify.

import ctypes
from ctypes import wintypes as w

user32 = ctypes.WinDLL('user32')
user32.GetForegroundWindow.argtypes = ()
user32.GetForegroundWindow.restype = w.HWND
user32.ShowWindow.argtypes = w.HWND,w.BOOL
user32.ShowWindow.restype = w.BOOL

# From https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-showwindow
SW_MAXIMIZE = 3
SW_MINIMIZE = 6

hWnd = user32.GetForegroundWindow()
user32.ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_MINIMIZE)

Upvotes: 1

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