Detect program lose or gain focus/active window

[binbinhfr]

Hi there,

I wonder how to check if the current Autoit program is losing the focus because the user swaps to another program, or gains the focus again.

Infact I want to check this to disable/enable a bunch of hotkeys that I want to be available only when my Autoit program has focus...

(a solution in form of an event would be preferable, because I'm in GUIOnEventMode 1)

Edited October 29, 2021 by binbinhfr

[Zedna]

Look at these functions in helpfile:

WinGetState()

ControlGetFocus()

 

Edited October 29, 2021 by Zedna

[binbinhfr]

  On 10/29/2021 at 9:44 PM, Zedna said:

Look at these functions in helpfile:

WinGetState()

ControlGetFocus()

 

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Thanks !

Maybe ControlGetFocus is not for my precise case, but WinGetState is the solution.

Is there a way to trigger the WinGetState() test using an event that detects some changes in the window ?

Or should I check it regularly based on a timer ?

Edited October 29, 2021 by binbinhfr

[Zedna]

  On 10/29/2021 at 9:02 PM, binbinhfr said:

Infact I want to check this to disable/enable a bunch of hotkeys that I want to be available only when my Autoit program has focus...

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In this case use GUISetAccelerators() instead of HotkeySet().

Such accelerators are active only in your GUI by default.

Edited October 30, 2021 by Zedna

[binbinhfr]

  On 10/30/2021 at 12:06 PM, Zedna said:

 

In this case use GUISetAccelerators() instead of HotkeySet().

Such accelerators are active only in your GUI by default.

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oh great, I did not know this one !

but as I see, you can only attach keys to existing Controls. Not possible to have a key attached to a function (or maybe with a trick using hidden controls ?). But it's already a big help ! Thanks.

[Zedna]

Look here - solution for this using GUICtrlCreateDummy()

 

Edited October 30, 2021 by Zedna

[binbinhfr]

  On 10/30/2021 at 12:58 PM, Zedna said:

Look here - solution for this using GUICtrlCreateDummy()

 

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😃 nice !  Thanks

[binbinhfr]

So I tried the accelerators, but they works randomly, very strange.

Infact, it seems that I need to click the button once before being able to use the accelerator bound to this button...

Do I miss something ?

Note that my hotkeys worked fine directly calling the callback of the same button.

Forget it, I made an error with the array size, that must be precise....

 

Edited October 30, 2021 by binbinhfr