Windows 10 App to move forground window every x minutes

[Otuama]

Hi... here's a strange question for you.

We've recently 'updated' our 3d software and some systems have run into a purely random, but VERY frustrating issue.

It's a known issue but the developers of our render software can't replicate it because it's very random.

What happens is:

When a frame for an animation finishes rendering, 50% of the time it doesn't move to the next frame...... it just hangs there until someone moves a window in the software a little bit. This then wakes it up.

Very frustrating if you're rendering something over the weekend or overnight..... you then look at the systems and it's done sod all.

Here's a video of it happening. It was just sitting there doing nothing until I moved a window:



Here's a link to a post I made

BatchCam Render with Corona 7 (hotfix1) and Max22


My question to you is..... is there any way we can tell windows to automatically move a foreground window a little bit every X minutes. This'll mean that if it does freeze, it'll then be woken up again.

If something like that does exist and it did work, you'd turn this big frown upside down .

Thanks

 

[Neemobeer]

It would be a very niche application. It is certainly possible programmatically.

 

[Otuama]

It would be a very niche application. It is certainly possible programmatically.

Great..... can you do it then ?

I'm wondering how I could go about finding someone who could do it.

Is there somewhere you can suggest? Maybe freelancer?

Thanks

 

[Neemobeer]

There are free lance sites like UpWork you could contract someone to right such a program.

It could be done with any dotNET language and leverage system calls in the User32.dll

Since the Window does not have a static name it would be a matter of calling EnumWindows and looking at the Window Title of each window handle to locate the correct window and it's associated handle. Once the handle is know a call to GetWindowsRec to get the current position of the window and then adjust the rectangle object and finally a call to SetWindowPos to set the new position.