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This doesn't match the Thunderbird Compose window, but why ...
It's intended to specify the window as exact as possible.


What's my mistake/misunderstanding ?

My guess is the problem lies with "Compose:" - I might be wrong, try running WinSpy and see what comes up. I've found with some windows, even though the text is visible to me, it doesn't necessarily show up in WinSpy. It should be able to create a match based on text seen by WinSpy.

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Of course I've already checked that - looks good
I'm a bit doubtful concerning the use of ahk_class in conjunction with the WinText part...
Anyway - I use this as an workaround for the time being:

You know, you'd get the exact same effect here by setting the title match mode to two using SetTitleMatchMode and IfWinActive. Look 'em up!

Right jonny - tried that already. Missed that in my 1st code snippet.
But as I wrote: no match ... double checked w/ Window Spy - everything looks fine - no idea
Is there a problem using 'ahk_class <class>, <WinText>' as win spec. ?

I re-read the help again (and again):

hmm... I did a WinGetText on my window and it was empty.
I think WinText has obviously nothing to do w/ the title, but what is it ???

WinText is text that appears beneath a window's title bar. More specifically, it is the captions of all controls in the window. You can discover a windows exact WinText with Window Spy (or using WinGetText as you did).

It is possible to use ahk_class and WinText together, but not ahk_class+title (but this is a good suggestion if only there were some way to do it without breaking existing scripts).

Thanks Chris, that's the explanation I was looking for.
Anyway, it's not a big deal 'cause doing

is good code too.
And nobody wants to break existing code w/o a GOOD reason