Minimize All WIndows

[Ladssoft (wam)]

Hello.
I want to minimize all windows (for Windows OS) using go.
In perl, this can be achived by simply importing the Win32::OLE module:

use Win32::OLE;
Win32::OLE->new(‘Shell.Application’)->MinimizeAll();

However I have so far not found a way to do this in go.
I appreciate any help

[anon58176343]

I don’t now how current this package is but maybe you can try:
https://github.com/go-ole/go-ole

I only work with Macs and Linux the last time I tried to interact with Windows over OLE was with Visual Basic 6 10 years ago…

There is also an example folder with some samples maybe you can figure it out?

[Ladssoft (wam)]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Norbert!

By looking at the function used with Perl, I did some
guesswork - and it turned out to be a very simple thing:

package main

import (
	ole "github.com/go-ole/go-ole"
	"github.com/go-ole/go-ole/oleutil"
)

func main() {
	ole.CoInitialize(0)
	unknown, _ := oleutil.CreateObject("Shell.Application")
	shell, _ := unknown.QueryInterface(ole.IID_IDispatch)
	oleutil.CallMethod(shell, "MinimizeAll")
}

Again, thanks a lot