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[Hotfoot]

Minimizing a window puts a window as the bottom-most window. Would there be a way to minimize a window but make it the second-from-top in window order? I want to minimize a window and then be able to reactivate it with the regular 'Alt-Tab' function.

I've tried to get this to work (on WinXP) but it's not working the way I would expect. Here's one of my attempts:

[toralf]

I do not know a solution to your question,
but you may try to use Alt+Tab to change the order before minimizing.
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toralf

[evl]

Since the order of windows in the list will change each time you activate a different window, it's not possible that way. You could achieve the same effect I think by "Winset, Bottom" on a SetTimer and then Alt+Shift+Tab to access it. The Alt-Tab replacement I'm working on should eventually support repositioning items in its list, but that's probably at least a month or two away before I add that.

[Chris]

If you want the ultimate control over window stacking order (z-order), try searching the forum and/or the 'net for SetWindowPos(), which is an API function that can be called via DllCall. WinSetBottom is implemented as a single call to this function.