Unable to Activate window without Title

[IrkenElite86]

Hello There.

 

I'm hoping that someone can help me. I'm trying to run a script that will WinActivate a window that does not have a title.
The intention is just to bring the app to the front of all the windows on my desktop.
The class is CLASS:WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.11c7a8c

I've tried the following, and it does not work... am I missing something?

WinActivate("[CLASS:WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.11c7a8c]","")

Is there any other way to call this application with no title?

[AutoBert]

Use handle of window, but remember it's not fix.

[IrkenElite86]

47 minutes ago, AutoBert said:

Use handle of window, but remember it's not fix.

Unfortunately I need something fixed, as this will be for a long term application.

[Nine]

how come position is -1808 (minus 1808) ?  Is it a hidden window  ?

[IrkenElite86]

2 minutes ago, Nine said:

how come position is -1808 (minus 1808) ?  Is it a hidden window  ?

Triple screen monitor setup. This was done on the left most monitor.

[Nine]

Have you tried to WinGetHandle (...) first ?  How do you know it is not working ?  What is the error code ?  Try [ACTIVE], see what is going on 

[IrkenElite86]

28 minutes ago, Nine said:

Have you tried to WinGetHandle (...) first ?  How do you know it is not working ?  What is the error code ?  Try [ACTIVE], see what is going on 

 

So here is my code i'm using for getting the Handle

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
Example()

Func Example()

    Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.11c7a8c]")
    If @error Then
        MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred when trying to retrieve the window handle of the app")
        Exit
    EndIf


    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", $hWnd)



WinActivate($hWnd)


EndFunc   ;==>Example

The handle it returns is "0x00020B12"

as you can see by the image at the start, the handle there shows something different... so it doesn't actually work either... 

[Nine]

43 minutes ago, IrkenElite86 said:

as you can see by the image at the start, the handle there shows something different... so it doesn't actually work either... 

On the contrary, it means it has worked.  Otherwise the handle would be 0 !

[IrkenElite86]

3 minutes ago, Nine said:

On the contrary, it means it has worked.  Otherwise the handle would be 0 !

Good point...

But it still doesn't bring the window forward, is there another command i can use to do this? Sorry, I'm still fairly new to AutoIt, and I do appreciate your help

[Nine]

use the $hWnd handle on winactivate.  Report the result like $result = WinActivate ($hWnd)

and remember that a window that is "Always On Top" could still cover up a window you Activated.

After a successful activation @extended is set to 1 if the the window was already active, 2 if not.

msgbox both $result and @extended 

[IrkenElite86]

26 minutes ago, Nine said:

use the $hWnd handle on winactivate.  Report the result like $result = WinActivate ($hWnd)

and remember that a window that is "Always On Top" could still cover up a window you Activated.

After a successful activation @extended is set to 1 if the the window was already active, 2 if not.

msgbox both $result and @extended 

Thank you Nine.

I decided to try the script on another application, and everything is working flawlessly. It appears to be just this one application that doesn't want to play nice. I'll have to keep playing around to find a different class value that it will accept and allow itself to be controlled.

Thank you for all your help!

[jdelaney]

Also an option to get the window using a regexp on the class.