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I use RSS Bandit (www.rssbandit.org) as my RSS reader. I have a script in AHK that, whenever I click both the left and right mouse buttons, it sends a command to close the window in whatever Web browser I'm using. I want to do the same thing for the tabbed windows in RSS Bandit.

Only problem, I like to use ahk_class rather than the window title to make sure which app is frontmost, and the ahk_class of RSS Bandit changes every time I launch the program.

Sometimes it's WindowsForms10.Window.8.app3 but right now it's ahk_class WindowsForms10.Window.8.app4.

Those are the only two values I've seen (it changes each restart) so maybe I only have to check those two options, but I'm wondering whether it makes sense to have a wildcard option in the ahk_class.

Or maybe this is a very special case.

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Tommy

Just for the crowd - cause you still seems to know it: WinGetClass, OutputVar [, WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText]

Yep, no idea if SetTitleMatchMode covers that topic. If not, would it make sense to include this function as an additional parameter or to create SetClassMatchMode ?

btw. how to loop the app extension ?

Loop, 9
{
ac ++
IfWinExist, WindowsForms10.Window.8.app%ac%
{
WinClose
}
}

It would probably would be too rarely used to justify adding it. The solutions you proposed are the way to do it in this case. Specifically:

I wasn't aware of the WinGetClass method -- I suppose I should have been aware of it, but I wasn't. This works better than what I was thinking of. Thanks.

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Tommy

I was curious on this... I am pretty new to AHK and am running into a window title issue as well. I like using the class but it also has variations based on the instance opened.

is there a wildcard option at all?

how would you apply the wingetclass function?

Look into http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands ... chMode.htm, which also has regex option (e.g. wildcards)

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Thanks I will check it out... g

Hello again! I got my process to function with the Regex process but wanted to add in a bit of error handling and am not sure what this should look like.

pretty much I want to do is use a key command to activate the script but be sure that if I havent opened the window to select a page range first that it doesnt go through all the menus to change trays print locations etc.

how do I tell it to interupt and go back to the begining and wait for the window to actually be present in the background or active in the event I prematurely sent the key command to run it?

man I hope that make sense... sounds confusing to me.

I ran into a similar situation with processing MDI Child windows, which act more like controls than like child windows. In an application I automate all the time, I need to be able to find child windows under a given parent whos classname matches a particular class pattern. I do it with something like this: