Dialog - use triggers

How to create/show a window and then use ActionTriggers in the same script? You may encounter these problems:

  1. You don't know where and in what order to call ShowDialog, ActionTriggers.Run, etc.
  2. ShowDialog and ActionTriggers.Run both run all the time, and therefore cannot run in the same thread simultaneously, unless ShowDialog is called from a trigger action.
  3. The script may not exit when the window closed, because ActionTriggers.Run is still running.
  4. In trigger actions you cannot use WPF window functions because they run in another thread.
using Au.Triggers;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;

A good and easy way - run triggers in another thread. And set option to execute trigger actions in the primary thread.

//build window
var b = new wpfBuilder("Window");
b.R.AddOkCancel();
b.End();

//set triggers
ActionTriggers Triggers = new();
Triggers.Options.ThreadThis(); //let trigger actions run in this thread
var hk = Triggers.Hotkey;
hk["Ctrl+Shift+L"] = o => { b.Window.WindowState = WindowState.Minimized; };
hk["Ctrl+Shift+K"] = o => { b.Window.WindowState = WindowState.Normal; };

//run triggers and show window
run.thread(() => { Triggers.Run(); });
if (!b.ShowDialog()) return;

Or you may want to use Show instead of ShowDialog. It does not wait. The "build window" and "set triggers" parts are the same. The "run triggers and show window" part can be like this:

b.OkApply += o => { print.it("OK"); };
b.Window.Closed += (_, _) => { Triggers.Stop(); };
b.Window.Show();
Triggers.RunThread();