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Not quite.

Firstly, there's no point incrementing "i" if you set it to 1 every iteration.

Second, retrieving the value of a dynamically-named variable (i.e. an array item) can only be done with expressions (or Transform,var,DeRef,%var%.) Something like this should work:
The "% " forces the parameter to be interpreted as an expression. ahk_id must be a literal string (so "" are required). A_Index is the current iteration of the loop (starting at "1"), so winid%A_Index% retrieves the value of the variable whose name is "winid1", "winid2", etc.

The "Arrays" page in the help file explains a few things.

That's great lexikos!

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood that if winget, variable, list is all that's coded, it will automatically add all open windows to the array?

Ah, you're right. I read:and didn't see the exception:
I imagine "all windows" only includes all visible windows if DetectHiddenWindows is OFF. I'm not sure if this only includes windows that show up in the task bar... I think it would include other visible windows (like the task bar itself!)

Edit: Yep, the list includes the taskbar (ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd) and desktop (ahk_class Progman).

Hi,
sorry for the mistake and the not minimal code!
In any case you're right the winget function retrievs the list (if list parameter is specified) of the windows matching your criteria (in this case probably the title). In any case the variable named in this case winid will contain the number of windows and the variables from winid1 to winidn will contain the ids of the windows.

Bye!

I've managed to scrounge this code together, and though I believe it should work in keeping each window selected randomly only once for each time the macro is run. The code no longer seems to switch between the windows.

I'm suspecting there's something I dont understand about the %Number% value being used?



Am I still making sense?

Hi,
Try to put some MsgBox or something that can give you a feedback on the content of the several variables you have.

Bye!

I don't see any problems. In fact, I tried the script and it seems to work perfectly, although:

• I disabled the "Send" because I didn't want it to mess with my open windows.
• I had 9 windows in the list (including the taskbar and desktop), but the Options string only includes 8. To fix that, you'd need to build a list of indices (1 to %winid%). The code gets a bit more complicated once you get >9 windows - because numbers can be > 1 char long, you need a delimiter.

Here's what I came up with (though I think it could be cleaned up a lot):

Edit: Here's a shorter/cleaner version. How it works:

1. It loops through all indices (1..%winid%), encodes the index as a single character (using Chr()) and appends it to the Options string.
2. Instead of pulling the numeric digit from the Options string, it pulls the encoded character and retrieves it's numerical value (using Asc()).
3. Because "Number" no longer exists in the Options string in literal form, SubStr() is used to remove the encoded character.

Note that because each character is a single byte (1..255), a maximum of 255 windows is imposed. On the other hand, it beats the limit of 9 windows, while removing the requirement for a delimiter (like ","), which makes the code more compact.

Hi,
I think it would be clearer in this two points with


and this

with

If this works correctly you can remove the substitution of the start end commas and do it only once after the construction of the list.
Unfortunately in this moment I cannot test them.

EDIT:

this with regex can be:


Bye!

I disagree. Using SubStr() is shorter, clearer and more efficient. We know there will always be start and end commas in "Options", so there is no need to use regular expressions (or the "?" quantifier.)
The point of having commas on both sides of every number is to remove ambiguity when, for example, one number is a subset of another. For example: ",?1" would match the "1" in ",210" (because the comma is optional)... However, I realise now that there should never be ambiguity, because

• a larger number can't be a subset of a smaller number ("x" can't contain "xy"), and
• the indices are in ascending order (left->right),
• so AHK will always find the smaller number first!

So, you could...
At any rate, I much prefer the second method I posted (using Asc() and Chr()). It's more compact, more efficient, and cleverer.
*sigh*. Why are you using RegExReplace? Tmp can potentially be any character. Because you haven't escaped it (e.g. "\Q" . Tmp . "\E"), if Tmp is a regex-reserved character, the script could crash. Granted, that isn't likely (there'd have to be a lot of windows), but it's possible. More to the point, you haven't specified a regular expression, so you should be using StringReplace, not RegExReplace.

There are two reasons I believe SubStr() . SubStr() is (marginally) more efficient:

1. *Replace needs to first search for the character, whereas we already know the position.
2. The *Replace method requires the use of a Tmp variable.

Hi,

yes, you're right, mine error. I just trying to be helpful (unfortunately I haven't the possibility to test things in that moment, and usually I prefer to test is much better)

Is better for me, too.

Bye!

Man, you've all been so helpful!
This is what I've come to using:



The desktop counting as a window was throwing me off a bit, so I limited it to 'Notepad' and the send function works just fine.

TriggerVariable := Mod(WinID%Number%, 3)

Should the above line of code assign 'TriggerVariable' with either 0, 1, 2 with consideration to the variables previously mentioned?

yes, but it might not be useful.

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Hehe, I just realized, I need to decrement the number of windows by one in order to tab through them.

And

AltTab := %WinID% -1

Doesn't seem to work.

"Decrement the number of windows" -- why? What's the "AltTab" var? If by "tab through them" you mean activate the window that is second-most recently active, that would be winid2. winid%winid% (the last item) would be the least recently activated window. If you're trying to eliminate the active window from consideration, start at index 2 (winid2). So, for example: