How to hide/unhide current acctive windows?

[VISHALVODRO]

Hi there,

I have a script which hides/unhides just a specific window. I am trying to make something which will hide/unhide just current active windows gradually.

Please help.

This is my script for hide/unhide the specific window...

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;

DetectHiddenWindows, On
SetTitleMatchMode, 2 ;partial match 
!`::  ; Alt+` ; Hide/Unhide Firefox Private Browsing
IfWinExist, Mozilla Firefox (Private Browsing)
If Hidden 
{ 
  WinShow
;  WinActivate
} 
Else 
{ 
  WinHide
} 
Hidden := !Hidden ;Toggle hidden 
Return

;

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[Xtra]

Check out this post: viewtopic.php?t=93964#p416478
It will minimize aka hide any number of windows to the system tray and show its icon there too.

HTH

[VISHALVODRO]

Hi! Thanks for the Reply.

I had found out this by myself:

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!3::  ; Alt+3 ; Hides Active Window
DetectHiddenWindows, On
WinGet, active_id, ID, A
IfWinActive, ahk_id %active_id%
WinHide
Return

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It hides the active windows, but now unable to bring those windows back? Something similar as below, but it doesn't seem to work somehow...

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!4::  ; Alt+4 ; UnHides Active Window
DetectHiddenWindows, On
WinGet, active_id, ID, A
If Hidden 
WinShow, active_id, ID, A

What to put now bring those hidden windows back???

[Xtra]

Example:

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#NoEnv
OnExit, exit

!3::ShowHideWindows("A", 0)    ; Hide
!4::ShowHideWindows()          ; Show All

ShowHideWindows(wintitle := "A", show := 1)
{
    static windows := []
    
    if (show)
    {
        for each, active_id in windows
            WinShow, % "ahk_id " . active_id
        windows := []
    }
    else
    {
        WinGet, active_id, ID, % wintitle
        windows.push(active_id)
        WinHide, % "ahk_id " . active_id
    }
}

exit:
    ShowHideWindows()
    ExitApp

Try testing it on some empty notepad windows to see how it works.

Note: since we have the window IDs stored in an array DetectHiddenWindows, On is not needed.

HTH

[VISHALVODRO]

Thank you for the reply dear,

This is similar to this

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hiddenWindowNumber = 0
!3::
   hiddenWindowNumber++
   WinGet winID, ID, A
   WinHide A
   hiddenWindow%hiddenWindowNumber% := winID
Return

!4::
   ; Show all hidden windows
   ; You can also create a menu (for example) listing the windows
   ; allowing you to choose a specific window to unhide
   Loop %hiddenWindowNumber%
   {
      winID := hiddenWindow%A_Index%
      WinShow ahk_id %winID%
   }
Return

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Only the issue is these does not auto activate the next opened window after hiding and it unhides all together...

yet it was a great help dear...

[Xtra]

You would be better off with the link i posted 1st then you can double click the icon in the system tray to unhide the window you choose. You can visually see whats going on and would be hard to mess up.

I guess if you want to activate the next window in the z-order after hiding a window you will need to get the list of current windows and activate the 1st one.

[VISHALVODRO]

Ok, bit of hard work seems like... Thank you dear...