I’m wanting to run RIOS in socket server mode, sitting in the background invisible, to be controlled from another computer or microcontroller (probably arduino). However RIOS won’t let me completely minimize/hide its windows.
The main window can be minimized, but if the Play window is up (which is needed for socket mode) then while the Play window can be minimized, it remains visible on the desktop and then prevents Main window from being minimized.
I’ve tried starting the program from a shortcut and set to start minimized, but the Play window won’t open until the Main window is restored to full size. Which puts me back to square one.
Is there some way around this? I’m running on Windows XP. I’ve tried a couple of different programs to hide the windows, while they seem to work fine on other programs, they just can’t seem to hide the Play window.
On Xp there’s a little icon near the “Start” menu, on the TaskBar
just click once on it, it will minimized all opened windows, even RIOS both “Main menu” and “Play” WIndows
it’s called “Show desktop” or “View Desktop” dunno
or you can build your own file to close all windows :
Create a new text file, edit it with Notepad,
then put this 5 lines text in :
use File->save as
and use the name you want + the “.scf” extension like “Desktop.scf”
scf files are Windows explorer commands
Then double click the file when you want to minimize all opened windows
Thanks for letting us know about that trick, I hadn’t considered that it may work.
I had gone as far as creating a second user to run RIOS with. Enabling multiple terminal server logins using a hack, I could then use a script to connect to 127.0.0.2 which would allow me to open a connection to that user on the same machine and login and start RIOS. I would then disconnect from the user and it would be completely hidden.
Of course the downside to that is that you also get double ups of a lot of other processes that you don’t need such as virus scanners and the like.
