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I found that every time when I run a AHK script, my TweakUI setting of "Prevent applications from stealing focus" will be reset.

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic4632.html
this page says that is by designed, but this feature is annoying to me
I have tried the solving method by calling Tweakui, but that is not very convenient to call tweakui in every AHK script.
Is there any way to prevent AHK reset the setting?

In the post you linked, Chris also proposed a solution:

Otherwise, short of changing the source code and compiling AHK yourself, I don't know what else you can do.

I have tried to add this line in my script, but it didn't work to me.


Is that right?

Try it again using the actual values of the constants:
SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT = 8193
SPIF_SENDCHANGE = 2
Edit: You also have to use the specify the argument types. See DllCall for more info.

Hi,

this "stealing focus" AutoFunction in AutoHotkey is terrible. Although I know it's necessary I'm getting crazy always loosing my focused windows while I'm working in them. Even every reload of the script again resets the focus.

It's somehow like those big applications (we all know them) doing things automatically you don't want. I don't like that. At least there should be a function in AutoHotkey to enable/disable this behavior. There are cases when you don't really need this "WinActivate"-basics.

And of course, at the end AutoHotkey should reset SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT to the state before (automatically or manually). Is there any (hidden) function I missed?

Anyway, for the workaround I'm trying to reset it by DllCall. But it doesn't work (verified and resetted by TweakUI). So, what am I doing wrong?




Btw: I love AutoHotkey. A big thanx to the coders, scripters and all the other helpful people around here!

Anyone found the correct format for this function? Thx in advance

Ok, this works:

Why is it still enabled?
Such window behavior is dangerous.
It should be off by default or at least configurable.