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[Decarlo110]

Is there a way to tell the window to stay bottom and never go topmost even when it is activated ?

The activation must be prevented. I would use WinHide, and then if you need to work with a window again, make sure you have a hotkey that turns off the timer-check, then uses WinShow, then WinActivate. When you are done manually working with the window, use a hotkey to WinHide, then turn on the timer again.

I cant presently think of any other way how to handle it, although interception of each mouseclick and checking the window under the cursor, then allowing or nulling the mouseclick, is probably possible.

EDIT: You could also move the window off screen, or just minimize it and make sure not to touch that particular tab.

[Decarlo110]

I understand the requirement now.

The answer to the question:

Always bottom even if active possible ?

is no, since by definition, the active window is topmost.

However, the following code will accomplish what you want:

#Persistent 
SetTimer, CheckBottom, 100 
CheckBottom: 
IfWinNotActive, MyWindow 
  WinSet, Bottom,, My Window
return

(i changed the timer interval from 10 to 100 since i think 10 millisec uses up too many cpu cycles)
EDIT: edited WinSet line to specify the window

[Decarlo110]

o.k. We need to be very specific in our terminology. I originally interpreted "bottom" to mean bottom of the window stack, not graphically below the other windows. I will review the posts and post again unless someone else solves it before i do.

[Decarlo110]

On July 26, 2005, in http://www.autohotke...opic.php?t=3320 i had suggested the following:

4) WinRestore, NoActivate option.

From the helpfile:

WinRestore: Remarks:
This command operates only upon the topmost [of the stack, not graphically] matching window except when WinTitle is ahk_group GroupName, in which case all windows in the group are affected.

Chris responded with:

You might try the following. If it produces a useful effect for you, I'll either document it in the help file (under WinRestore) or build it in somewhere:
DllCall("ShowWindow", UInt, WinExist("Untitled - Notepad", Int, 4) ; 4 = SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE, 8 = SW_SHOWNA

which unfortunately did not work for me (Win2000). You can certainly try the code Chris suggested though. I'm not sure if the goal is currently possible, sorry. Perhaps another can help, maybe shimanov.

parentheses corrected:

DllCall("ShowWindow", UInt, WinExist("Untitled - Notepad", Int, 4)) ; 4 = SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE, 8 = SW_SHOWNA 
return

[shimanov]

Rajat's "Desktop Sidebar" demonstrates a method which may be your best hope without resorting to something more exotic. The only drawback, is that it removes the window button from the taskbar and from the task switcher (i.e., Alt+Tab).