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josephusm

Post subject: ALT+F1...F12 selection for open windows

Posted: September 10th, 2008, 11:34 pm

Hi all,

Here is a script I bashed up that allows me to use ALT+F1 to F12 to select open windows.

I wanted this so that with fullscreen PuTTY sessions I could emulate being back on the Linux console, where swapping between terminals used the afformentioned quick keystrokes!

It is also quite handy for quickly switching between windows, as I loathe using ALT-TAB.

There are 2 disadvantages however:

- ALT+F4 is remapped by the above (You could change these keys to Ctrl+F1 etc if you wanted, but I dont care...)

- The window order is determined by the window ID, which are a bit random, and thus not in the same order as they are on the taskbar, so it takes a bit of guessing to find out which button brings up which window.

(-- Does anyone know how the open windows on the taskbar are sorted by? That would be much nicer...)

Thanks for Autohotkey, its the bomb!

-Joe

P.S. If anyone knows a better way or sorting arrays than throwing them in and out of strings, let me know. Ditto for the array access during function call business.

--- Code ----

Code:

SwitchWindow(n) {

    ; Get open Window ID list
    ; then activate specific window.

    WinGet, idlist, List

    if idlist < %n%
    {
        Return    ; Abort if not enough windows open
    }

    Loop %idlist%
    {
   temp := idlist%A_Index%
        idstrlist = %temp%,%idstrlist%
    }

    Sort, idstrlist, N D,
    StringSplit, idlist, idstrlist, `,

    temp := idlist%n%
    WinActivate, ahk_id %temp%
    return
}


!F1::
SwitchWindow(1)
return

!F2::
SwitchWindow(2)
return

!F3::
SwitchWindow(3)
return

!F4::
SwitchWindow(4)
return

!F5::
SwitchWindow(5)
return

!F6::
SwitchWindow(6)
return

!F7::
SwitchWindow(7)
return

!F8::
SwitchWindow(8)
return

!F9::
SwitchWindow(9)
return

!F10::
SwitchWindow(10)
return

!F11::
SwitchWindow(11)
return

!F12::
SwitchWindow(12)
return

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kearn

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Posted: September 12th, 2008, 11:46 pm

Joined: September 12th, 2008, 8:24 pm
Posts: 2
Location: South Africa

hi, firstly very nice script

, i always have lots of windows open.

i have a request though, i wouldn't know how to do it myself as i'm quite new to this, anyway my request:

if i press say ctrl+alt+fx where x could be 1..12 (12 function keys) i want it to assign that fx to the current window so that if i press alt+fx (same x) later (when the window is now not current) it will select the window. i hope u understand what i mean

thanks

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josephusm

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Posted: September 18th, 2008, 6:02 pm

Pretty good idea.

Here then is a script that allows you to bind a window with Ctrl+Fn and raise it later with Alt+Fn.

If you want to be able to bind the window with Ctrl+Alt+Fn as you suggested, then modify the lines that look like ^F12:: to look like ^!F12::

Code:

; Bindable ALT+Fn Window selector - josephusm
;
; Use Ctrl+Fn to bind the active window, and Alt+Fn to raise it later
;

Loop, 12
{
    id%A_Index% := 0
}
return

RemoveToolTip:
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, Off
ToolTip
return

BindKey(key)
{
    ; Store the active window's ID

    WinGet, active_id, ID, A
    id%key% := active_id

    ToolTip, %key%
    SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 1000
    
    return
}

UseBind(key)
{
    ; Use the stored window's ID to focus it
    ; if it still exists

    win_id := id%key%

    if WinExist("ahk_id" . win_id)
    {
        WinActivate, ahk_id %win_id%

        ToolTip, %key%
        SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 500
    }
    else
    {
        ToolTip, %key%: No existing window bound
        SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 1000
    }

    return
}


^F1::
BindKey(1)
return

!F1::
UseBind(1)
return

^F2::
BindKey(2)
return

!F2::
UseBind(2)
return

^F3::
BindKey(3)
return

!F3::
UseBind(3)
return

^F4::
BindKey(4)
return

!F4::
UseBind(4)
return

^F5::
BindKey(5)
return

!F5::
UseBind(5)
return

^F6::
BindKey(6)
return

!F6::
UseBind(6)
return

^F7::
BindKey(7)
return

!F7::
UseBind(7)
return

^F8::
BindKey(8)
return

!F8::
UseBind(8)
return

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kearn

Post subject:

Posted: September 19th, 2008, 9:08 am

Joined: September 12th, 2008, 8:24 pm
Posts: 2
Location: South Africa

thanks, this is great

although i disabled the alt-f4 (for closing windows) and ctrl-f2 (for bookmarks in notepad++)

now i've gotta try and figure out your code (the top bits especially)

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