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I didn't uninstall it, but killed it's process and then the single key hotkey seems to work fine.



I'm not sure I even understand what this is supposed to do, so ignore this for now.

I have a suggestion what if you made the group function so that when you save a group that the icons will goto one icon only like a sub menu only in alt-tab list. Like when you left click on that group icon it shows a sub list with all the icons in that group could you do that??

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Hey evl, hope you are checking this thread

I have played with modifying the script a bit, and am running into a weird problem:

in ListView_Destroy, after the Gui, 1: Destroy line, I add

Loop {
RButtonDown := GetKeyState("RButton","P")
If (!RButtonDown)
Break
Sleep 10
}

*Problem*: this loop never executes. The window switches, and instantly registers a right-click in the new window. However, when I added this loop to the barebones script posted earlier, it worked just as expected.


Why the hell am I doing this:

I'm trying to make the script play well with Logitech MX Rev. mouse rocker switch. I'm trying to invoke alt-tab app list, then scroll via the wheel, then press a mouse button (currently RButton) to select it.

I got this to work by adding
If A_GuiEvent = RightClick to the ListView_Event subroutine

This works, but for aesthetic reasons (to avoid highlighting the wrong app on RightClick) I want to trigger the window switch on mouse down, as opposed to mouse up (with RightClick). So, I tried using in ListView_Event

If GetKeyState("RButton")
If A_GuiEvent = RightClick
{
RightClickFlag = 1;
Gosub, ListView_Destroy
}

and to make sure the button got released before commencing the window switch to add the loop that waits for the RButton to be lifted up

in ListView_Destroy, after the Gui, 1: Destroy line, I add

Loop {
RButtonDown := GetKeyState("RButton","P")
If (!RButtonDown)
Break
Sleep 10
}

But this loop never executes. The window switches, and instantly registers a right-click in the new window. When I added this loop to the barebones script posted earlier, it worked just as expected.

d'oh, the next to last code snippet should read
"So, I tried using in ListView_Event
If GetKeyState("RButton")
{
RightClickFlag = 1;
Gosub, ListView_Destroy
}
"

If I could make a feature request that would be really cool...

I work with Putty sessions a lot; often many sessions on one server and I find myself looking through windows with a particular content but all having the same title.

I think it would be really cool if, as you alt-tab through the windows, in the background the window you have highlighted gets brought to the front but opaque. So you can 'preview' the contents of the window.

Then obviously you can either select it in which case it will be active but in normal mode.. Or if not selected, the window returns to the way it was.

Any thoughts?

Long time no post, but soon I'll post a fairly significant update to this, my favourite script The basic functionality is still about the same, but the code is significantly cleaner (and a LOT easier to follow), the listview display is much slicker and it's pretty fast too.

Hi evl
When can we expect this masterpiece?

I use it all the time on several computers. There is only minor "bug" that annoys me from time. I use right ctrl + shft (+enter) as alt+tab(+shift) and what happens some time is (when extensively using it) that some shift-double-press function is activated. Even though the shift is not pressed, the keyboard acts as it was. To turn it off I had to press right shift twice. And this is only on one computer. Maybe it has to do sth with winxp settings...

Good progie, it's on the list of my essentialz.

jOc

Thanks for the interest. I'm still working on it (work ... real work that is.... caught up with me so I haven't finished ironing out some bugs yet).

hey mate,

how would you go about to make alt-tab every 20 seconds between all the windows that it have open?

cheers

hello evl, your script is really impresive, I normally use the mouse but in some cases, when browsing, i would like to use the mouse to shitch tasks, can you give me some tips to do it? maibe using rbutton+wheel
thanks

this is excellent !!! exactly what I needed and even better !!
thank you so much for this !!

looking forward to that release. thanks for the script by the way. I use it everyday.

So, after almost exactly two years, it's time for an update to my Alt-Tab script

You can read the changes and download it from the first post in this thread. Feel free to report any important bugs (it's a work in progress, consider it a beta - but I do use it every day, so it's pretty reliable). I'll update the screenshot soon. The options tab is NOT yet implemented.

The most significant changes are tabs for groups of windows, much better listview drawing and considerably more optimised code (which is a lot easier to follow now).

WOW WOW amazing !

I noticed a previous run when I started using AHK, but was unclear about using it...

I think I'm becoming clearer about it, I'm probably gonna love it

Thanks for sharing

evl,

I hadn't used AltTab.ahk for a long time, but decided today to start using it again. What an interesting surprise to find that you posted an update just yesterday.

The script seems much faster, and the new features seem good.

Maybe I'm dense, but I really can't figure out how to use the GUI to maintain my custom groups. I have a group named DeanLimited that is a list of applications to exclude. I can't figure out how to edit my list in the GUI, so I edit the ini directly.

I think I found your first bug.
I defined my group in the ini as follows, but no windows showed up.

I found that adding any non-excluded item to the end of the list made things work exactly as expected, i.e. all windows except the two exclusions were shown:


Looking at the script, I found the problem in the Display_List__Find_windows_and_icons section. When the group only contains excluded items, the Continue in the below code is always executed and no windows are shown.