[rusoaica]

hello!

my program uses speech recognition, and when i start it, it also starts Windows Speech Recognition (sapisvr.exe). What i want to do is to start WSR minimized. I tryed it this way:

Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal nCmdShow As SHOW_WINDOW) As Boolean

    <Flags()> _
    Private Enum SHOW_WINDOW As Integer '
        SW_HIDE = 0
        SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
        SW_NORMAL = 1
        SW_SHOWMINIMIZED = 2
        SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3
        SW_MAXIMIZE = 3
        SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE = 4
        SW_SHOW = 5
        SW_MINIMIZE = 6
        SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE = 7
        SW_SHOWNA = 8
        SW_RESTORE = 9
        SW_SHOWDEFAULT = 10
        SW_FORCEMINIMIZE = 11
        SW_MAX = 11
    End Enum

    Private Sub MaximizeSWR()
        For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("sapisvr")
            'ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, SHOW_window.SW_HIDE)
            'ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, SHOW_window.SW_SHOWMINIMIZED)
            'ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, SHOW_window.SW_FORCEMINIMIZE)
            ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, SHOW_window.SW_MINIMIZE)


        Next p
    End Sub

I tryed all the flags related to minimizing, but all i was able to achieve was WSR to dissapear, but leaving instead the shadow under it, as shown in the picture. I mention that if i hover over the shadow, it still displays that label "Windows Speech Recognition listening mode", as if the progroam is still there. Also, i can drag it around the screen. How can i make it not to show any window?

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[Nerfpl]

Odd. I used

ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, 2) //this minimizes
ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, 0) //this hides task bar afterwards

and it hides the window without issues. Maybe order matters.

This post has been edited by Nerfpl: 12 May 2012 - 08:36 AM

[rusoaica]

thank you very much, that did the trick! but now i am facing another problem... Windows Speech Recognition always starts turned off, so i have to click on that microphone button to make it active and listening for voice commands... how can i make WSR start in "Listening" mode?

[Yagami5159]

I'm sorry for bothering, I know this post is already few months old but may I ask the process of sapisvr.exe have how many Window Handle? The reason I'm asking this because my coding couldn't make the sapisvr.exe minimized like the post above. I found the ProcessID and the window handle(one)but it just couldn't minimized.

P/S: I'm using C++.