Process Left-click AFTER the Active Window Change

[kkleinfelter]

When I

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~lbutton::
    CoordMode, Mouse, Window
    MouseGetPos, mx, my, buttonHwnd

and the user clicks on a window other than the active window, the x, y, and hwnd are for the window which is losing focus and not the window which was clicked on. At least sometimes.

This *is* what the doc says: "Relative: Coordinates are relative to the active window."

Is there a way to ensure that Windows has handled the event BEFORE AutoHotkey gets it?
How can I get the X, Y, hwnd of the window which was CLICKED instead of the window which was ACTIVE?

[kkleinfelter]

Well, the best I can come up with is the following. Is there a better way? Is there a drawback to my method I should be aware of?

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    CoordMode, Mouse, Window
    MouseGetPos, mx, my, buttonHwnd
    WinActivate, ahk_id %buttonHwnd%
    MouseGetPos, mx, my, buttonHwnd

[kkleinfelter]

No, that still isn't working. I keep getting negative values for X or Y. I'm clearly not getting the X/Y coordinate relative to the clicked window because I'm clicking in the window and I'm getting things like -400

[kkleinfelter]

I gave up on directly getting click coordinates relative to the *clicked* (not the active) window. My 'solution' was to get the coordinates in *screen* mode, get the origin of the window the mouse is over (in screen mode), and subtract the window origin from the mouse position. i.e. I calculated the relative position.