Startup Property Sheet

Available in: Actual Window Manager, Actual Window Guard.

The Startup property sheet allows defining the initial target window state by selecting and configuring actions that should be executed at target window's startup.

Actions Available At Window Startup group - contains the action list and the Action Options group. Action list displays the set of items where each item represents a single action and has a checkbox on the left allowing to enable/disable the corresponding action's execution (also you can use the related toolbar buttons to enable/disable all items at once). The Name list column displays the action name and the Status list column displays the current state of action parameters, if present. To adjust desired action's parameters, select it in the list and in the Action Options group below you will see some extra controls allowing to change action parameters (if action has no configurable parameters then you will see the "No extra options" note).

Note The actions will be executed in the exact order as they are shown in the action list.

The following actions can be selected to execute at startup:

• Change program priority item - mark this item's checkbox to change the execution priority of an application which the target window belongs to. In the corresponding New program priority combo box you can select the desired priority value.
  
  Note You can modify these options also in the Priority property sheet.
  
  
• Change program affinity item - mark this item's checkbox to change the affinity of an application which the target window belongs to. In the corresponding set of check boxes you can define the set of processors which target window's application should run on (please note that at least one processor must be selected).
  
  
• Ghost item - mark this item's checkbox to ghost the target window.
  
  Note You can modify these options also in the Ghost property sheet.
  
  
• Hide mouse pointer item - mark this item's checkbox to hide the mouse pointer when it hovers over the target window.
  
  
• Remove taskbar entry item - mark this item's checkbox to remove from Windows® taskbar the button that corresponds to target window's application.
  
  
• Make transparent item - mark this item's checkbox to make the target window transparent of a certain level. In the corresponding group of controls you can specify the transparency level value.
  
  Note You can modify these options also in the Transparency property sheet.
  
  
• Change caption item - mark this item's checkbox to replace target window's default caption string with the specified value. In the corresponding Change caption to edit field you can specify the desired string value. Also, there is an additional Keep persistent checkbox - mark it to prevent further attempts to change the caption string you specify.
  
  
• Move to monitor item - mark this item's checkbox to place the target window to the specified monitor, if you have the multi-monitor configuration. In the corresponding Target monitor combo box you can specify at which monitor the target window should be displayed.
  
  Note You can modify these options also in the Position property sheet.
  
  
• Open as item - mark this item's checkbox to open the target window in an appropriate state: normal, minimized or maximized. In the corresponding Window will be opened as combo box you can specify the desired target window's appearance.
  
  Note Enabling this action and selecting the Minimized Window appearance is equivalent to marking the At startup checkbox in the Minimizing property sheet.
  
  
• Resize item - mark this item's checkbox to resize the target window to specified dimensions. In the corresponding group of controls you can specify these dimensions in either absolute or relative units.
  
  Note You can modify these options also in the Size property sheet.
  
  
• Align item - mark this item's checkbox to align the target window within desktop in the specified way. In the corresponding Align window to combo box you can select the way of aligning from 9 predefined ones.
  
  Note You can modify these options also in the Position property sheet.
  
  
• Stay Always-On-Top item - mark this item's checkbox to control target window's Always-On-Top state. In the related Stay Always-On-Top group of controls you can define the way of controlling:
  
  
  • Always radio button - check it to always place the target window on top
    
    
  • Never radio button - check it to never place the target window on top
    
    
  • As before radio button - check it to save the current Always-on-Top state on target window's closing and restore this state next time the target window will be opened
    
    
  • Freeze checkbox - check it to deny any application's attempts to change the Always-on-Top state which was set by the Actual Tools program
    
    
• Pin to desktop item - mark this item's checkbox to "stick" the target window to desktop's surface.
  
  
• Run keyboard macro item - mark this item's checkbox to send the defined sequence of keystrokes to the target window. In the corresponding group of controls you can:
  
  
  • type the text of macro in the multi-line edit field considering the following rules:
    
    
    • alphanumeric characters should be typed "as is"
      
      
    • to insert a key combination into the macro sequence, use the Add key combination group controls - click the edit field, press the desired key combination (it will be displayed in that field immediately), then click the Add button (or you can simply type the combination enclosing it with angle brackets - e.g. <Ctrl+F5>, <Alt+Shift+B>, <Ctrl+End>, etc.)
      
      
    • to insert a special key into the macro sequence, use the Special keys dropdown button - just click it and select the desired special key from the dropdown list (or you can simply type the special key alias enclosing it with angle brackets - e.g. <PgDn>, <BkSp>, <Ins>, etc.)
      
      
  • specify the time to wait after window's opening before sending the sequence to the window - mark the Delay before running checkbox and provide in the edit field the desired amount of milliseconds to wait
  
  
  
• Close item - mark this item's checkbox to close the target window. In the corresponding group of controls you can mark the Delay before closing checkbox to specify in the related edit field the proper amount of milliseconds to wait before the target window will be closed.
  
  

Options group - allows adjusting the Startup trigger options. Currently the following options are available:

• Remove standard window parts checkbox - mark it to enable the removing of standard window controls. In the related group of controls you can define which controls should be removed:
  
  
  • Border checkbox - mark it to remove target window's border (including the title bar).
    
    
  • Resizable frame checkbox - mark it to remove the resizable frame (if present) that allows "rubber stretching" of target window. After that, the target window can't be manually resized.
    
    
  • Title bar icon and buttons checkbox - mark it to remove from target window's caption both the window icon and all standard title buttons.
    
    
  • Minimize button only checkbox - mark it to remove from target window's caption only the standard Minimize title button.
    
    
  • Maximize button only checkbox - mark it to remove from target window's caption only the standard Maximize title button.