Activating embedded word window

[Spitzi]

Hi there.

I have an application that embeds winword in its GUI

Now I want to activate winword within this app (just how it would activate if clicked)

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WinActivate, ahk_exe winword.exe

unfortunately does not activate the embedded word...

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WinSet, Top,, ahk_exe winword.exe

does not work, either

How can I do this . Thanks in advance. Any suggestions welcome

[boiler]

See if the embedded Word window is a control with which you can use ControlFocus.

[gmoises]

You can use Window Spy to get the actual WinTitle and a lot more information about that application.

[Spitzi]

Hi. Thanks for your responses. Sadly, nothing works. Even trying ControlFocus - which was a great idea - led to nothing. Using WindowSpy, I see that the embeded word control has _WwG1 as name, but calling ControlFocus does not activate it.

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WinActivate, coris
WinSet, Top, , coris

ControlFocus, _WwG1, coris
WinActivate, ahk_class OpusApp

[boiler]

Just to be sure — is the title of the application’s window title really “coris” with a lowercase “c”? Window titles in the WinTitle parameter are case sensitive.

[Spitzi]

Hi @boiler, thanks for your input.

Yes, the Window title is "coris".

Another way would be to prevent the loss of focus of the embedded winword app in the first place: in my script, I show a noActivate-Gui where the user can click on a button for a text choice to be inserted into the word document. When clicking the button, the gui window gets activated and word looses focus. Is it possible to not have a gui activated even when it is clicked on? That would solve the issue, i think.

[boiler]

Is it possible to not have a gui activated even when it is clicked on?

Yes. See this thread.

[Spitzi]

Hello @boiler

Thank you very much for pointing that out to me. Alas, still no luck. In my AHK-Skript, I generate some guis, among others a "main window". It seems like the code in the thread does not work, if the same skript generates two guis: the windows deactivate one another. The Gui does not deactivate another window, say Word, though. But I need one gui to not deactivate the other...

Here's my sample code:

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Gui, TestGui:New, +LastFound +AlwaysOnTop +ToolWindow -Caption -DPIscale +E0x08000000, TestGuiWindowName
Gui, TestGui:Margin , 2, 2
Gui, TestGui:Font, s12, Arial
Loop, 12
{
	handlerFunction := Func("Button").Bind(A_Index)																; bind the filePath to the function to call when the button is pressed
	Gui, TestGui:Add, Button, % "x" 5+(A_Index-1)*60 " y5 vF" A_Index " HWNDbuttonHwnd", F%A_Index%
	GuiControl +g, %buttonHwnd%, %handlerFunction%
}
Gui, TestGui:Show, x100 y200 NoActivate, TestGuiWindowName
Sleep, 1000
Gui, TestGui:Font, bold
GuiControl, TestGui:Font, Button3
Gui, TestGui:Show, x200 y300 NoActivate, TestGuiWindowName




; second gui
Gui, AnotherGui:New, , Test
Gui, AnotherGui:Add, Text, ,some text
Gui, AnotherGui:Show



Return

Button(index) {
	ToolTip % index
}

^Esc::
Reload
return

Clicking in the TestGUI deactivates the second gui "anotherGui"

[boiler]

You might consider using a parent script and a child script, where one script has only the GUI you don’t want to activate. There are various ways to have the scripts communicate so that they basically act as one.

[Spitzi]

So there's no way to get the funcionality using just one script?