AutoHotkey Community

[jonny]

I was slightly surprised at not finding this, the reason being I'm mapping XButton1 and XButton2 (on my nifty new mouse ) to Alt+Tab stuff. XButton1 is now AltTabAndMenu, but I couldn't find it's counterpart. I can see why you didn't include this, since AltTab will almost always be done before a ShiftAltTab, but the way I'm doing it it's awkward to have only one of the buttons make the menu show.

Actually, this wouldn't be so bad, if I could designate a fall-back action. Actually, that would be kind of nifty, to have the ShiftAltTab button do something else if the menu isn't up, but the way the AltTab actions are designed doesn't allow for that.

Possible? Probable? Poignant?

[Chris]

You can probably script the alt-tab actions manually. For example, to get the alt-tab menu to appear, send {AltDown}{Tab}. I think that's all the program does internally to get it.

[jonny]

Ys, but it probably does it a little more efficiently. (?) Actually, I just try to avoid keystrokes whenever possible, but if the AltTab actions just do that too, I might look to PostMessages to Alt-Tab Thingy.

[Chris]

If you find a message that invokes the Alt-tab menu and/or navigates through it, please post it because I'd be quite interested.

[jonny]

Alt-Tab Thingy is a freeware program that replaces/modifies (?) CoolSwitch (The real name of the AltTab dialog). So far, my experiments don't reveal any "super-message" which invokes it, but I'll keep looking. But a message to invoke the regular alt-tab would be nice. God-like almost. I, for one, would immediately trash Thingy and go back to CoolSwitch if something like that popped up.

Btw, a link to Alt-Tab Thingy is in my "bug" post on this subject.