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I looked at the Help, and search but did not find a way to run a text file, in Notepad and stay on top but not take the focus away from the active window.

Maybe I am missing something simpleL

Try:

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This works...



Chris...

• I originally designed it to not require a Program, but without it AHK can't find the pid?...is there any way for you to try & acquire the pid when "running a file"?
  
• When the code was...
  
  
  Code:
  F7::
  File=my file.txt
  ;Program=notepad
  
  Run, %Program% %File%, , hide, pid
  ;...etc...
  
  ...I get an error about the space between "%Program%" & "%File%" (when I remove it it works), but when it's...
  
  
  Code:
  F7::
  File=my file.txt
  Program=notepad
  
  Run, %Program%%File%, , hide, pid
  ;...etc...
  
  ...it don't work without the space, (if I add it back, it works, but...) the only way to make it happy (in both cases) is like I did with the "iffy" space addition...can this be improved at all?...of course I ended up always needing a Program, but if the 1st bullet point can be fixed, then this matters again.

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This is a documented limitation: "The variable will be made blank if the PID could not be determined, which usually happens if a system verb, document, or shortcut is launched rather than a direct executable file."

Since I don't know any way to improve on it yet, the script would have to discover the PID some other way, such as WinGet.

It could be improved by omitted whitespace when passing the command line to the API for launching. However, I think this would break any script that relies on the ability to launch files whose names start with spaces.

The code i gave works also, it was just missing the following line at the top:

i occasionally forget script settings when posting since i have the habit of letting my auto-execute take care of the common settings. (i use my .ini file for all my scripts)

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