Issue with #if WinActive Topic is solved

[Scr1pter]

Hi, I used #if WinActive in a code and everything worked perfectly.
This one works perfectly:

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#if WinActive("ahk_class Valve001")
<::Alt
return

The < key gets converted to Alt, only if the specific application is running + in foreground.

I created another code (almost the same logic), but it doesn't work, and I don't know why.

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^+!F11::
#if WinActive("ahk_class IrfanView")
Send {Home}
return

I want that if I press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F11, the Home key gets pressed, but only when being in IrfanView.
The strange thing is that the Home key gets always sent, no matter where I am...

Regards

[grimboto]

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#if WinActive("ahk_class IrfanView") ;This line should be above the hotkey
^+!F11::
Send {Home}
return

[burque505]

Hi Scr1pter, you could try this. The msgbox is just there for testing.

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^+!F11::
if WinActive("ahk_class IrfanView") {
Send {Home}
msgbox Test to see if IrfanView is active
}
return

EDIT: grimboto, I guess we were posting at the same time, almost. Your code is closer to Scr1pter's, of course.

Regards,
burque505

[boiler]

The advantage of using the #if directive instead of the other way is that the key will retain its original function when the window of interest is not active. In burgue505's code, that key will get swallowed up by the hotkey and will do nothing if that window is not active. That's not a big deal in this case, but it's really important if you want to have something like the tab key or space bar or a regular letter key be your hotkey. You want them functioning as normal in other applications.

[burque505]

Good point, boiler.

[Scr1pter]

Thank you for your support, guys.
It worked!

May I ask another question?
I tried to send this hotkey to IrfanView when the program is not in foreground.
I made a test with Notepad and it worked:

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^+!F11::
ControlSend, Edit1, {Home}, Unbenannt - Editor

(In English it would be Untitled - Notepad)

Even if Notepad was in background, it worked.

I tried the same with IrfanView, but it didn't work:

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^+!F11::
ControlSend, Edit1, {Home}, G9-Arg-Tasten.jpg - IrfanView

Ideally it should be something like *.jpg - IrfanView.

Thanks again for your great support!

[jeeswg]

This works for me when IrfanView is the active window, however, it seems that every time you switch the focus from some other window to the IrfanView window, the Edit control loses focus.

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q::
ControlSend, Edit1, {Home}, ahk_class IrfanView
return

[Scr1pter]

Thanks, but any idea how it would/could work if it's not in foreground?
I use two monitors and IrfanView is maximazed on monitor 2.

Thanks.

[Scr1pter]

By the way, I tried your code and not even this one works - strange.
Even if IrfanView is on foreground.

I use IrfanView 4.50 64 Bit.

[jeeswg]

- You could use AutoHotkey's window spy to see what the class is.
- What do you want to do with the Edit control, what is the Edit control for?
- I would probably do something like ControlSetText and ControlSend with {Enter} if I wanted to do something with the Edit control.

[Scr1pter]

Hi,
I use this code to get the class of a window:

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^+F1::
WinGetClass, class, A
MsgBox, Class of current window is "%class%".

It actually says the class is "IrfanView".
Or do you think this WinSpy will give me "better" information?

To be honest I have no idea about the Edit control!
Basically I just want to switch from the current picture to the first picture of a list (by pressing the home key).
That's all I want.

I made a very small progress, in the Compile tool I chose "Unicode 64 Bit", because I realized my scripts don't work on 64 Bit applications.
But the general IrfanView problem still exists.

[jeeswg]

Try this:

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q:: ;IrfanView - navigate to first image
ControlSend, ahk_parent, {Home}, ahk_class IrfanView
return

[Scr1pter]

Hey that works!
Thanks man