Vision static windowed mode

Ignition
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Is it possible to launch vision in windowed mode without allowing the user to move the window?

We launch our HMI with 2 programs at the same time. Part of the monitor is assigned to one program and the other part needs to be assigned to Vision, preferably without overlapping the two.

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No, that would require an external, custom desktop. Tiling window managers for Linux likely could do this.

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Thanks for the quick response. We're using Windows, if anyone has a solution for Windows, that would be great.

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Something something AutoHotKey? Would rely on AHK being installed and running (or being launched by the Vision client) on each client computer.

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It is indeed doable from AHK. Thanks for that idea.
I run ignition in full screen mode and then execute this AHK script:

WinSetRegion "0-0 3840-0 3840-162 3180-162 3180-2000 0-2000", "ahk_class SunAwtFrame"

That causes the window to show up like this:

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I found another way to do this within Ignition itself.
In the client startup script add.

from java.awt.Window import getWindows
from java.awt.geom import GeneralPath

window1 = getWindows()
window2 = window1[0]

ourShape = GeneralPath()
ourShape.moveTo(0,0)
ourShape.lineTo(1920,0)
ourShape.lineTo(1920,81)
ourShape.lineTo(1590,81)
ourShape.lineTo(1590,1063)
ourShape.lineTo(0,1063)
ourShape.closePath()
window2.setShape(ourShape)
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