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[evl]

Features:
Middle click sends a normal middle click unless:
- Over the taskbar: Closes the window whose button is under the mouse (aborts if window prompts to save,etc).
- Over the titlebar of a window: closes the window (can be made more sensitive to specific window areas - see Shimanov's post:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8486 ).
- Over an internet explorer class window: Opens a link in a new window (keep holding the button down to switch back to the original window).

[Chris]

Making the middle button context sensitive is very useful. I've put a lot of functions onto mine too.

Your script is ultra-context sensitive since it detects titlebar and taskbar too. Thanks for sharing it.

[jballi]

I've always wanted to add some extra functionality to the middle mouse button. Thanks for the code!

[evl]

I've made some changes to the script which make use of shimanov's code for the titlebar sensitivity to clicks:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8486
and generally improved some of the functionality and code so posted an update above.

[jballi]

I'm a fan of this code. I've been using a variation of it since you first posted it. It's a bunch of features all bundled into the middle mouse button. Thanks for sharing!

I have a few questions/comments:

1) I noticed that you mix the use of MouseClick and Click. It certainly doesn't make any difference but you probably don't need to use both (?) and when using/sending Click you don't need to specify the X,Y coords since you're not repositioning the mouse.

2) There is no reason to send an Alt-Tab to return to the previous window since you already have the ID for the previous window. I would just reactiavte the window:

[evl]

@ jballi:
Thanks for the comments:

1) I couldn't get Click to work with sending the middle mouse button down, so I reverted to just using MouseClick for that bit as it worked without any hassle. I was trying " Click Down Middle %ClickX%, %ClickY%" - but that seems to keep the middle mouse button pressed down even after you release it and it screws up the other mouse buttons until you close the script (ctrl-alt-del) and click the middle mouse again. I also tried adding "$" infront of the MButton hotkey. Maybe a bug or a mistake in my syntax?
I decided to put in the co-ords just to make sure the correct thing would be clicked if the user happened to have the mouse on the edge of a link, etc and was moving the mouse quickly. It shouldn't be necessary in 99% of clicks, but better safe than sorry.

2) You're right about Alt-Tab of course

3) The Sleep is for 2 reasons. a) The total should come to around 500ms so that the middle button state can be checked to see if the user wants to switch back to the original window or not (although I think I see your point of using SetTimer as the delay instead of the initial Sleep) otherwise the button state is checked too quickly to detect if the user really wants to hold the middle button down or was just pressign it still. b) IE can be a bit stupid sometimes and the window can steal focus if you try to switch away from it too soon, so the extra 100 ms sleep should work around that and making sure that the correct window has focus (for a split second no window has focus until the IE window is properly created I think). Also well done for catching my syntax error

[kingzulu]

So for a person with limited progamming knowledge (but I know my way around windows fairly well) what to I do with above code? Is it ment to be compiled into a free running program or stuck in some windows system file?

[vzx]

This is great, but it interferes with Firefox. When I middle-click on a bookmark in the menu, it does not open.

[Brad]

I'm seeing the same behavior as vzx on a different script that uses the middle-click as a hotkey. Any ideas how to use the middle-click as a prefix key, but still retain the original functionality when clicked?

[Sukarn]

[rojer_31]

Thank you. Was looking for something like this.

[Someguy!]

The taskbar middle click function does not work on vista. I tried fooling around with the code myself with no luck. Any ideas on how to make it work?

[Someguy!]

The taskbar middle click function does not work on vista. I tried fooling around with the code myself with no luck. Any ideas on how to make it work?

[evl]

The section you need to look at is "; Close taskbar program click" - it doesn't do anything fancy though, just send a right click and press c to close, so perhaps the shortcut is different in Vista, or, the menu is taking too long to display so increase the sleep time: e.g. "Sleep, 100"

[ttrickyy]