Find last active window

[Andre]

Hi,

I've tried to find this but no luck

How do i display the previous active window ?

For example :

I'm running notepad, and switch to an AutoIt program, how can i see that notepad is my last active window ?

Andre

[apsync]

dunno but if you want to reactivate it you send can alt+tab once

[Andre]

Hi,

thnx works but...

show the alt-tab dialog also quickly.....

Andre

[jdickens]

$PrevWin = WinGetTitle("")
$CurWin = WinGetTitle("")
while 1
  if $CurWin <> WinGetTitle("") Then
    $PrevWin = $CurWin
    $CurWin = WinGetTitle("")
  endif
  Sleep(100)
Wend

This is some off-the-cuff pseudo-code, but maybe you get my drift.

Instead of Sleep, you could implement WinWaitNotActive($CurWin).

I suppose I have not left you a good way to get out of the loop though.

J

[Andre]

hi does not work.....

Andre

[herewasplato]

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
;mode four allows for the use of "last" in the next line

WinActive("last")
;activates the last active window

[Andre]

"last" uses the last successful window match so you don't have to keep specifying the title and text again and again. e.g.

Andre

[jdickens]

This is what they call a "proof of concept." It has a message box which pops up every whipstitch, but maybe it can be refined.

The main prob. I had was with the scope of the variables. I tried several implementations, but my ideas all required some multi-threading, which wasn't working.

;Prog Start
Global $PrevWin = ""
Global $CurWin  = "dummy"
While 1
  Sleep(100)
  WinWaitNotActive($CurWin)
  $PrevWin = $CurWin
  $CurWin = WinGetTitle("")
  MsgBox(4096, "This win excluded", $PrevWin, 5)
WEnd

J

[herewasplato]

"last" uses the last successful window match so you don't have to keep specifying the title and text again and again. e.g.

Andre

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I know, but it worked for me at the start of a script... one that was started via an OS shortcut key... so, thinking about it further, the window that I was interested in never lost focus - so the "last" line probably did nothing for me. Thanks for helping me think thru that. I'll go back to sleep now.

[SupraNatural]

Well I guess you could have all you "extra" desktop icons in a folder somewhere and when the boss comes in you hit alt + b or something and it switches them all. As for the windows just do a WinList function and save that list then have autoit close them all, and open a few new "innocent" ones.