WinActivating Programs Topic is solved

[blad4]

I use below to cycle through open programs, and all is mostly fine, using Win10. There often is a slight delay however, in that the activation of a Window is slower than the requests, so say I send the command twice, it will only open the next one. Then if I resend, it will open the next one fine, showing that there was an overall lag (maybe between the programs being resource heavy), and it doesn't simply skip to the next program which would indicate that my command got sent but failed.

If using Left click for this, is there a more efficient way using WinWait and IfWinActive and Keywait, to additionally employ the following two criteria:

1) Count number of clicks and match next program activation. E.g. pressed Left 5 times, say within 1000ms, program 5 is activated
2) Check what the latest click was and ensure that the correct program is open, no matter the lag of the program itself activating

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if vaRtt=1
{
Winactivate 1
return
}
if vaRtt=2
{
Winactivate 2
return
}
if vaRtt=3
{
Winactivate 3
return
}
if vaRtt=4
{
Winactivate 4
return
}

[Albireo]

Don't know if it could be of any help, but to register mouse clicks I would do the following .:

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#Persistent
...
LButton::
...
Return

To keep track of the time I would use .: SetTimer example #3

[wbm1113]

I don't know how to do the click-counting within a certain timeframe (1000 ms). It seems like that would interfere with normal clicking behavior. That said, this might help you with the other things you're trying to achieve:

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global vaRtt := 1

Gui, Show, w300 h300, 1 
if ActivateByNumber(vaRtt) ; success
    MsgBox Success!
else
    MsgBox Better luck next time!


Gui, Show, w300 h300, 2
if ActivateByNumber(vaRtt) ; fail
    MsgBox Success!
else
    MsgBox Better luck next time!
return

ActivateByNumber(Number) {
    if(Number=0)
        return 0 ; vaRtt needs to be 1, 2, 3, etc. or higher in order to proceed

    ActiveTitle := ""
    WinActivate % Number ; activates 1 

    While(ActiveTitle!=Number) { ; continues activating '1,' until it is active
        WinGetActiveTitle, ActiveTitle
        Sleep 50
        WinActivate % Number
        if(A_Index>40) ; 40 iterations * 50 ms in the sleep command = 2 total seconds of waiting
            return 0 ; if 2 seconds is exceeded, return 0
    }

    return 1 ; otherwise return 1
}

[blad4]

Thank you guys, both a big help