Forums Bug Reports $window().state

im curious as to if this is a bug(and if it is, any viable work around?) Basicly, when doing $window().state it returns "normal" for any window type, that isnt active. on the active window, it gives you the actual status for it, hidden, minimized, maximized, normal.

how can we know a window is hidden if it has to be active to know that?

I cannot reproduce the problem. Are you perhaps using $window().state in a /timer ?

Also, I'm confused by your statement: "on the active window, it gives you the actual status for it, hidden, minimized, maximized". How can a window be active and minimized at the same time?

Perhaps related to this?

actually thats my point in why it isnt working, .state property of $window is ment to return one of those, and it wont do that if its not the active window, it will return normal. And no, im not using a /timer, im on mIRC 6.15 win2k.

I am unable to reproduce this here. If I use the following timer:

/timer 0 1 echo $window(status window).state

And then change the normal/maximized/minimized state of the status window, and make mIRC the active/non-active application, the /echo always returns the correct value.