WinSetEnabled

Enables or disables the specified window.

WinSetEnabled NewSetting , WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

Parameters

NewSetting

Type: Integer

One of the following values:

WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

Type: String, Integer or Object

If each of these is blank or omitted, the Last Found Window will be used. Otherwise, specify for WinTitle a window title or other criteria to identify the target window and/or for WinText a substring from a single text element of the target window (as revealed by the included Window Spy utility).

ExcludeTitle and ExcludeText can be used to exclude one or more windows by their title or text. Their specification is similar to WinTitle and WinText, except that ExcludeTitle does not recognize any criteria other than the window title.

Window titles and text are case-sensitive. By default, hidden windows are not detected and hidden text elements are detected, unless changed with DetectHiddenWindows and DetectHiddenText. When using pure HWNDs, hidden windows are always detected. By default, a window title can contain WinTitle or ExcludeTitle anywhere inside it to be a match, unless changed with SetTitleMatchMode.

Error Handling

A TargetError is thrown if the window could not be found.

An OSError is thrown if the change could not be applied.

Remarks

When a window is disabled, the user cannot move it or interact with its controls. In addition, disabled windows are omitted from the alt-tab list.

macOS

Supported only for windows and controls owned by the script's process. Cocoa has no equivalent of the Win32 EnableWindow for another application's window, so targeting one causes an OSError.

WinGetEnabled, ControlSetEnabled, Win functions, Control functions