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I want to press a hotkey and either move the active window up or down in its z-order, but still keep it active. I can't find any forum posts on this. Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks!

not sure what u meant by Z-order, but it can be done by WinMove

@kylirh -- I have only found references to DLL calls which I don't have sufficient knowledge to implement. AHk does have documentation and discussion on DLL calls. I just have not persued that information.

GetTopWindow Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633514(VS.85).aspx
GetNextWindow Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633509(VS.85).aspx

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Perhaps it can be done a different way.
Did you know that it is possible to communicate with windows that are not 'top' eg. controlsend, controlget, controlclick?



I you are not sure what was meant, why did you reply? WinMove will not help. Your reply suggests you are none-too-bright.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order -- Z-order is an ordering of overlapping two-dimensional objects,
such as windows in a graphical user interface (GUI) or shapes in a vector graphics editor.

In this topic by Lexikos, you may check the JustActivate() function,
which uses GetPrevWindow(), which uses GetPrevWindow_EnumChildProc().

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Thank you everyone for replying.

@Leef_me - I want to figure this out mostly for educational purposes. I would like to have a hot key that will push the active window down so I can see whatever is under it and then push it back up with another hot key. I know alt-tab does this, but I still wanted to have more granular control over it.

I'll look into this more at a later time and post anything I might find out. But thanks again for responding. I love the AutoHotKey community.