How do I determine which IE browser window is on top?

[Capel]

If I have multiple IE browser windows with similar titles, how do I determine which one is on top?

I'm trying to iterate over all the open browser windows, but the code below shows 2 instances of each browser. They have different handles. This is strange...

$lstViewers = WinList($sTitle)
For $i = 1 to $lstViewers[0][0]
  ConsoleWrite("Title=" & $lstViewers[$i][0] & "  Handle=" & $lstViewers[$i][1] & @CRLF)
Next

[JohnOne]

Heres a start for you, I have 3 IE windows open, this lists all, and only 3.

#include <Array.au3>

$title = "[Class:IEFrame]"
$awin = WinList($title)
_ArrayDisplay($awin)

[jebus495]

Found this poking around in the Help File under "Window Titles and Text (Advanced)"

Advanced Window Descriptions

A special description can be used as the window title parameter. This description can be used to identify a window by the following properties:

TITLE - Window title

CLASS - The internal window classname

REGEXPTITLE - Window title using a regular expression (if the regular expression is wrong @error will be set to 2)

REGEXPCLASS - Window classname using a regular expression (if the regular expression is wrong @error will be set to 2)

LAST - Last window used in a previous AutoIt command

ACTIVE - Currently active window

X \ Y \ W \ H - The position and size of a window

INSTANCE - The 1-based instance when all given properties match

WinClose("[ACTIVE]", "")

This should help you.

[Capel]

How do I get the Z order property of an IE window? I need the one on top.

[JohnOne]

Well I dont know what a z order is, but this gives me the active one, if indeed one is active.

The sleep is just there, so I could activate one of them.

#include <Array.au3>

$title = "[Class:IEFrame]"
$awin = WinList($title)

Sleep(2000)

For $i = 1 To $awin[0][0]
    $state = WinGetState($awin[$i][0])
    If BitAND($state, 8) Then
        MsgBox(0,"",$awin[$i][0] & " Is active" & @LF & "Handle = " & $awin[$i][1])
    EndIf
Next

[Capel]

Z-order is an ordering of overlapping two-dimensional objects, such as windows in a graphical user interface (GUI). In my case, the IE window I need to interact with may not be the currently active window (there could be a windows forms app on top), but I want to interact with the IE browser that is on top of all the other IE browser windows.

[JohnOne]

Well it seems to me (and I'm experiencing deja-vu here) that winlist, either by design or not, puts them in z order, so in my example code $awin[1][0] is top of the IE z order.

[JohnOne]

Here being shown.

#include <Array.au3>
#include <IE.au3>
$title = "[Class:IEFrame]"
_IECreate("http://uk.yahoo.com/")
_IECreate("http://www.bing.com/")
_IECreate("http://www.google.com/")

$awin = WinList($title)
_ArrayDisplay($awin)
WinActivate($awin[3][0])
$awin = WinList($title)
_ArrayDisplay($awin)
$awin = WinList($title)
WinActivate($awin[2][0])
_ArrayDisplay($awin)
$awin = WinList($title)
WinActivate($awin[1][0])
_ArrayDisplay($awin)

[Capel]

Ok, JohnOne, I'll try it out.