See-Thru Wndow

[Katharsis]

AHK has the ability to poke a hole in a window to see what is underneath. Would that work with WoW, perhaps to see an alt's minimap?

[Katharsis]

FYI, the answer is Yes! I like to play full screen and toggle through windows using HotkeyNet. Using AutoHotKey I can cut a hole in my top window to see the minimap of the character below thus making it easier to gather minerals and herbs at the same time.

http://feathermoon.us/images/ui/minimap.jpg


;Window Hole for 1920x1200resolution
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WinSet, Region, 0-0 1920-0 1920-1200 0-1200 0-0 1670-600 1920-600 1920-900 1670-900 1670-600, Window Title

[dRiN]

Nice and creative solution for the window stacking kind : ) Thanks for sharing.

[Korruptor]

Pretty cool!

[Freddie]

That's very cool. I just added rectangular holes to HotkeyNet after seeing this thread.

[wowphreak]

Hmmm I wonder if yeh could move a bar on an alt make it visible then be able to click on it hmmm

[Katharsis]

Hmmm I wonder if yeh could move a bar on an alt make it visible then be able to click on it hmmm

If you click on it then the background window comes forward. BUT!! Hotkeynet has a way to keep the foreground window on top even though another window has focus so this might be possible.
The latest build (http://hotkeynet.com/p/download.html) of Hotkeynet has the feature to create a window region.

[Freddie]

I think the best way is a combination of three things.

1. Keep the main WoW always on top.
2. Punch a transparent hole in the main WoW so you can see the background WoW's buttons through the hole.
3. Turn on "active window tracking" also known as "activation follows mouse" or "X-mouse."

With that combination, when you slide the mouse over the hole, the background WoW gets the focus but the foreground WoW stays physically in place. When you slide the mouse back, the foreground WoW has the focus again. Here's how to do these three things with HotkeyNet:


<Hotkey F1>
<TargetWin "World of Warcraft">
<SetWinRegion 100 100 200 300>
<SetActiveWindowTracking on>
<AlwaysOnTop on>

[Katharsis]

Thanks, Freddie. Please go on to explain, if you don't mind, how best to get rid of the hole and allow the background window to come forward again, if desired.

[Freddie]

You're a slave driver, Mr. K! Here's a second hotkey that restores the window to normal.


<Hotkey F2>
<TargetWin "World of Warcraft">
<SetWinRegion none>
<SetActiveWindowTracking off>
<AlwaysOnTop off>
Please note this requires build 111 of HotkeyNet which is about 30 seconds old. :)

[fahiel]

Going to poke around a bit more with it myself first

[Creazil]

I've been trying to get this to work, but I've never tried AHK and I seems to fail alot :-)

I run the same resolution as Katharsis, so I thought I should just load his script into AHK, but I was wrong. Actually I have no clue how to get it to work, if someone can make a nooby guide to make this hole? I can place the windows ontop/beneath eachother and move the minimap by myself - so I only need the AHK part!

Else just a few tips/guidelines!

Thanks alot!

[HPAVC]

Is there any ability to redisplay, duplicate, a fraction of the video from another screen as an overlay?

After seeing the feature popup in hotkeynet's changes I tried to write a always on top vnc viewer that just shows me a specific geometry xy,xy to bring the minimap from my second display to my first display. Works pretty poorly, i think because vnc is actually grabbing my whole display screen and thats a little on the big size.

The possibility of using a custome viewport and making the minimap not 'appear' on the slave screen is appealing. But just have it tucked away under the left side of the windows or off the screen, but displayed on the main's screen just fine. Something like this for a dual screen setup on the slace side (red being the physical monitor and the overlapped or off screen areas with the minimap are not visible...

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/2374/diagram1yj8.th.jpg ('http://img370.imageshack.us/my.php?image=diagram1yj8.jpg')