Why is a window put in front of others?

[dubi]

Hi,

 

I am controlling a number of windows (something between 2 and 30) by sending information to controls in those windows. I do this with controlsettext, controlclick and controlsend. In other routines I am using the a number of other window related functions: _WinAPI_ProcessGetFilename, WinGetPos, _WinAPI_ProcessGetFilename, _WinAPI_EnumWindowsTop, _WinAPI_GetWindow, _WinAPI_GetWindowText

There is no WinActivate or such in the code. My issue is, that from time to time the order of the windows changes: ie initially it is window 1,2,3,4 etc. and while running the sequence moves to 1,3,4,2 or so. I have no idea what triggers a particular window to move to the front. Sometimes this can even be fairly strong like 10 changes in a second or so. 

Any idea how I can find out how this is triggered?

 

-dubi

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by dubi

[careca]

You can place msgboxes next to those lines of code, and see if anything changes. It'll be progressive, only continues after you close the box so, that way you can know what portion of code is doing that, and the msgbox should have the line and the bit of code, so you can know what's what.

Edited September 4, 2017 by careca

[dubi]

Thanks and generally a good idea. Then callenge is that some of the procedures are being processed quite extensively and thus this debugging method is not optimal. In fact I am running up to 20 autoit-exe (compiled codes) in parallel. 

Anyone has an idea if one of the above mentioned calls can invoke a window reshuffling?