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Thanks for the kind words.

deanhill1971, thanks for identifying the bug - I'll fix it ASAP (and check the groups out a bit more thoroughly - that code had some big changes since the last version).

New version + some new screenshots in the first post.

I've fixed the group bug(s) - there was also a bug in loading the group to edit it (some quotation marks when calling a function that shouldn't have been there ) - no need to edit groups by hand now

hi. thanks for updating. one of the most useful scripts around.

would anyone mind explaining what a group is? or, how is it to be used best? I don't quite get it. thank you.

Groups explanation:

You can make a "group" of windows (under the right-click menu) that only includes or excludes certain windows. These then appear as tabs in the main window (the screenshots in the first post show the ALL group and a PSPad group I had which only included PSPad (editor) related windows).

Example 1) You could include all explorer windows and exclude all other windows.
Example 2) You could exclude a video player or other window from the list that you never want to Alt-Tab to.

Hi evl

Using this script, I find the following strange behavior : when I lauch "dexplore" (the browser MS gives to browse TechNet or MSDN), ALT-TAB gives me 2 entries for each dexplore.exe running with the same window title (although each time there's only one dexplore process).

What other info would you need to help you debugging ?

Hi Azerty

It sounds very similar to a problem I noticed (and solved) with PSPad. Basically PSPad has a strange interface that has one main window and one "hidden" window which is not really hidden (think of it as "always behind"). I'm guessing it's a similar problem. To see if it really is this case, try using something like:
WinGet, OutputVar, List, WinTitle - using the title of the window. If the list command finds two windows then there really are two windows Then the next step would be to look at the attributes of the windows to try and exclude one.

It's rather difficult to exclude certain (annoying) programs which do these things with the interface because it often tends to exclude other programs' windows too.

hi evl

thanks for taking the time to explain the groups feature. got it now. I appreciate it.

I came here from a search, looking to figure out how to start Task Manager, and select a particular tab (TM "remembers" the last tab you used, which is nice sometimes, and not so nice sometimes).

So I was just trying to figure out how to start at Applications, so I switch to a process using the list... and here I find a complete replacement for Alt-Tab that provides a list.

And recently updated!

So with no further ado, I downloaded, and ran, and got an error

Error: Parameter #2 invalid

Specifically: Tab2

And it lists line #392 as the culprit, which indeed has a Tab2 as parameter 2:

Gui, 1: Add, Tab2, vGui1_Tab HWNDhw_Gui1_Tab Background w%Gui1_Tab__width% -0x200, %Group_List% ; -0x200 = ! TCS_MULTILINE

Being rather novice at AutoHotKey, this'll take me a while to sort out... has anyone else encountered this? Do I need to do some configuration rather than just download and run?

Well this didn't take as long as expected... it hit me that maybe I had an older version of AutoHotkey than what the script needed, so I downloaded and installed the latest version, and the error vanished!

Hi, what a wonderful script. I really like it. I'm using it it: its nice!

Could you help me out with this issue please?:

msn messenger windows are not showing up in the list , even if i type showhiddenwindows, on


ty!!!

Max

Makes me wonder if there is a way that a script can specify the version of AutoHotkey that it needs, and give a nice error dialog if it isn't available...

And that if there is such a way, if it should be used in this script...

(Thoughts as I prepared to become horizontal last night, and that were still remembered this morning!)

there's a built in variable A_AhkVersion. you can use that to check.

otherwise, it's always best to check for new versions every now and then. 1mb download, no-install package, it's easier to update than most other softwares.

Yeah, why are the messenger windows not showing up in the list?

... well mostly because I don't use Messenger and therefore never noticed the problem

But seriously, I fixed the issue yesterday, but want to try and iron out a small bug before posting the new code:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=190176#190176

ok! Thx Evl, keep up the good job