Thanks Ball000,

Works like a charm.

Nathan

NathanH13: The new version 41.12 is now on archives:
http://archives.aros-exec.org/?function=showfile&file=utility/shell/activatewin.i386-aros.tar.gz
Thanks again for your report!

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you sent me at aros.pbes? I'll look for it. Thanks.

kind regards

Paolone: I've emailed v41.11 to you (at libero in Italy) for non-public testing, and I should upload this new version to archives this evening.
Thank you Deadwood for the help with building ABI_V0.

Thank you Paolone for the kind words.
I'll try to find time this evening but I can't promise. Activatewin is built with the build system and I only have ABI_v1 tree so far... So I'll have to get the ABI-v0 source tree, get the built successful, and then do the two or three changes needed from one ABI to another on my ActivateWin v11 source.

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Dirk Stoecker allowed me to port ProcessIcon and upload my executable to Aminet, but my rights on it stop here really.
Now ActivateWin is mine, APL licensed of course, so nothing stops it from being added to AROS sources. But it has no historical legacy, so I'm not sure it could be seen favourably by other developers who would be entitled to see it as a hack (I mean that it doesn't fit in the traditional interfaces... though it only uses public functions of the system).

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Long ago, I used ActivateWin as well in AmiBridge scripts to hide the workbench window, before I found the far better solution to not run it at all

I guess if I still used it, I would have catched the issue before Icaros release. Would you be anyway so kind to look into this when you can? I would really be glad to fix this issue in the very first update of Icaros (2.0.1), whose first beta has already been sent to our betatesters. ActivateWin, as well as ProcessIcon, are my favourite "external commands" and I really wished they both became standard in AROS.

Thanks,

I like it very much. I use it in scripts to resize windows so that they aren't over the amistart "hot-spot". I use wsz on 68k. Its crashed every time on 2.0. Just using within a shell "activatewin current mx=0 my=0 sx=1000 sy=300 alt" crashes it.

Nathan

Thank you for your report. Glad to know somebody uses it.

I will have a look, but I am overly busy this week so don't expect news until at least next week...

I've used ActivateWin a lot on ABI_v1 and it evolved a bit there. I didn't encounter crashes though with this evolved version so I am fairly confident in the success of the porting back towards the current ABI_v0.

Hi,

I used this command a lot and flawlessly under icAROS1.5.1 but now it crashes under 2.0. It says:

Program failed
Task: 0x056FB540 - activatewin
Error: 0x810000000F - Memory header not located
PC: 0x013F5657
Module Kickstart ELF Segment 1 .text (0x013E3000) Offset 0x00012657
Function InternalAllocPooled (0x013F55F0) Offset 0x00000067
Stack trace:
0x013ED97E Kickstart ELF Function Exec_118_AllocPooled + 0x0000004E
0x013F1BD1 Kickstart Elf Function Exec_149_AllocVecPooled + 0x00000031
0x0160D376 Kickstart ELF Function DoAsyncAction + 0x00000056
0x015F9004 Kickstart ELF FunctionIntuition_140_ShowWindow + 0x00000034
0x05193A93 ActivateWin Function actOnWindow + 0x00000056
0x051934A3 ActivateWin Function ActivateWin_main + 0x000004A3
0x05192F73 ActivateWin Function _entry + 0x00000183
0x015B1DA0 Kickstart ELF Function CallEntry + 0x00000050
0x013EB878 Kickstart ELF Function Exec_134_NewStackSwap + 0x000000A9
0x015B8160 Kickstart ELF Function Dos_84_RunCommand + 0x000000F0

Nathan