Always on Top Windows10

[malcev]

Undocumented CreateWindowInBand.

CreateWindowInBand
This is a private api function found in user32.dll.
CreateWindowInBand function is the same as CreateWindowEx except it has 1 more parameter, dwBand, that is where you specify the band on which the window should stay (ZBID).

HWND WINAPI CreateWindowInBand(
DWORD dwExStyle,
LPCWSTR lpClassName,
LPCWSTR lpWindowName,
DWORD dwStyle,
int x,
int y,
int nWidth,
int nHeight,
HWND hWndParent,
HMENU hMenu,
HINSTANCE hInstance,
LPVOID lpParam,
DWORD dwBand);

https://blog.adeltax.com/window-z-order-in-windows-10/

Script should be run with UI Access

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#persistent
hwnd := DllCall("CreateWindowInBand", "uint", 0, "str", "Autohotkey", "str", "title", "uint", 0, "int", 0, "int", 0, "int", 200, "int", 200, "ptr", 0, "ptr", 0, "ptr", 0, "ptr", 0, "int", ZBID_UIACCESS := 2, "ptr")
if !a_lasterror
   WinShow ahk_id %hwnd%
else 
   msgbox % a_lasterror

[guest3456]

interesting

[malcev]

teadrinker detected that when We run script with UIACCESS, then if We set +AlwaysOnTop on Gui then it automatically runs with ZBID_UIACCESS band.

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If !RegExMatch(DllCall("GetCommandLine", "Str"), " /restart(?!\S)")
{
   If (A_PtrSize = 8)
      RunWait "C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkeyU64_UIA.exe" /restart "%A_ScriptFullPath%"
   Else If A_IsUnicode
      RunWait "C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkeyU32_UIA.exe" /restart "%A_ScriptFullPath%"
   Else
      RunWait "C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkeyA32_UIA.exe" /restart "%A_ScriptFullPath%"
}
Gui, +HWNDhGui
Gui, Add, Text,, Please enter your name:
Gui, Add, Edit, vName hwndhEdit
Gui, Show, x0 y0
DllCall("GetWindowBand", "ptr", hGui, "uint*", band)
msgbox % band
Gui, +AlwaysOnTop
DllCall("GetWindowBand", "ptr", hGui, "uint*", band)
msgbox % band