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I use a lot of open source applications that happen to be written in java (freemind, VUE, etc.). I like to write AHK scripts that will give me keyboard shortcuts that work only in those applications, but am having a hard time getting #IfWinActive to recognize them by their titles. For example, the following does not work (I don't think AHK recognizes the freemind window by its title):



The only way I've found to get it to recognize FreeMind is using
, but this is giving me trouble when I need different shortcuts to do different things in the various applications. When I do something like it stops working.


Has anyone else had this problem? If so, do you know of any workarounds? Is this a bug in AHK? Any help would be greatly appreciated; this is driving me crazy.

Hi, ahkc,
I understand your problem, I stumbled into it some time ago.
To explain it in short:
For Windows (and therefore for AHK) all Java-windows are not the same as native Windows-windows, they are only objects administered by the Java Virtual Machine and AU3_Spy.Exe will only detect an instance of a JRE-class, a SunAwtFrame for instance and no window title can be found with the known AHK-functionalities.
I think, AHK is not the tool to control Java-applications, but you could have a look at SIKULI, it's a java based open source project to control guis without knowing their inner structure. It's works visually with screen shots. Give it a try!
Hope it helps,
Klaus

Klaus,
Thank you for the reply and explanation - figured it had something to do with the java. My one question is that when I run Autoit3 Window Spy, it shows me the following as the information for a Freemind window:

>>>>>>>>>>( Window Title & Class )<<<<<<<<<<<
New mindmap.mm - FreeMind - MindMap Mode C:\Users\peter\Desktop\mindmap.mm
ahk_class SunAwtFrame

I find it odd that this tool written in AHK can "read" the title from the window, but any code I write cannot accomplish this same task. I'm assuming that the Window Spy uses WinGet; I'll have to do some testing to see if that will help me get around this inconsistency.

In the meantime, I will check out SIKULI. Thanks again.