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Of all windows listed on the taskbar, is there a way to activate the topmost? Below are two failed attempts.

Dear Litmus Red,

This seams to work:Please have a look what you can use of it.

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toralf

Thanks for the help, Toralf. Your script helped me see how the WinGet function works in this situation. However, I haven't been able to modify your script to leave the topmost window active.

Here's an example of what I want. Supose the user has three windows open -- MSPaint, Notepad, and Internet Explorer. All three windows are visible, but none have the focus. Notepad was the last window to be active and is therefore on top. I want a script that will activate Notepad.

If you try this:You will find the answer.

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toralf

Thanks again, Toralf. The second example helped.

The script below will activate the topmost, unminimized window when the user presses Ctrl + A.

I'm not so sure. When I tried it on my machine. It was a lot of times the second in list. But once it was the 4th (I do not know what I did :). All previous windows had no title. So the savest way would be to take the first window in list that has a title. Making the beautiful 4-liner a 10-liner. :(

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toralf

It might have been due to the tooltip

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toralf

Yeah. The tooltips are counted as windows. Your second script helped me figure this out.

There are also two invisible windows listed at all times. They might be the desktop and taskbar -- I'm not sure.

If there are no tooltips and at least one unminimized window, my last script seems to work fine on Windows 2000 and XP. However, I feel safer using your suggestion.

The following script accomodates tooltips and any other window objects without titles.



Thanks so much Toralf!

Had used the script [above] by Litmus Red to activate the topmost window. Works in XP but not W98SE. Using AutoKey ver 1.0.40.11.

Is there any of the commands or syntax used not compatible with W98SE?

It's probably because Windows 9x has some zero-size system window that gets activated instead. You could try examining the list of windows returned by "WinGet List" and choose a window other than the first to activate.

Example #2 on the WinGet page shows how to view the title of each window (for testing purposes).

I was trying to activate the topmpst window ONLY if the topmost window belongs to ahk_class WinDialog group.
Sounds easy but the various "successful" tries were both changing the windows order - setting the former window on top of the next window (not always thoguh) and I couldn't open start menu or other things.

Any way to find the topmost window, if belongs to my goup (ahk_class WinDialog group) and not activated to activate it????
If possible, I wanted to be able to open start menu and do other things that have nothing to do with that group.

some codes I was trying:


on timer, I was trying:

Based on my limited understanding of the goal:

WinGet List can determine which window is at top of the stack.
WinGet ExStyle can determine which windows are set to be "always on top" (though that's probably not what you meant).
WinGetClass can get the class name of a particular window ID (such as ID would typically have been retrieved via "WinGet List").