Activate most recently active window in a group with autohotkey











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I am making an autohotkey script to switch to a text editor, but depending on what I'm working on I may have different text editors.



I created a group TextEditor with my three text editors:



GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad


The group seems to be created properly but whenever I use GroupActivate, TextEditor, R it always opens Nodepad++ and repeated presses switch between the three editors.



I want it to open whatever I last used first, like if I was using Code and switched to another program it should activate Code again.










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    I am making an autohotkey script to switch to a text editor, but depending on what I'm working on I may have different text editors.



    I created a group TextEditor with my three text editors:



    GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
    GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
    GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad


    The group seems to be created properly but whenever I use GroupActivate, TextEditor, R it always opens Nodepad++ and repeated presses switch between the three editors.



    I want it to open whatever I last used first, like if I was using Code and switched to another program it should activate Code again.










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      I am making an autohotkey script to switch to a text editor, but depending on what I'm working on I may have different text editors.



      I created a group TextEditor with my three text editors:



      GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
      GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
      GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad


      The group seems to be created properly but whenever I use GroupActivate, TextEditor, R it always opens Nodepad++ and repeated presses switch between the three editors.



      I want it to open whatever I last used first, like if I was using Code and switched to another program it should activate Code again.










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      I am making an autohotkey script to switch to a text editor, but depending on what I'm working on I may have different text editors.



      I created a group TextEditor with my three text editors:



      GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
      GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
      GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad


      The group seems to be created properly but whenever I use GroupActivate, TextEditor, R it always opens Nodepad++ and repeated presses switch between the three editors.



      I want it to open whatever I last used first, like if I was using Code and switched to another program it should activate Code again.







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          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad

          F1::
          IfWinActive ahk_group TextEditor
          GroupActivate, TextEditor, R
          else
          {
          list := ""
          ; windows are retrieved in order from topmost to bottommost:
          WinGet, id, list, ahk_group TextEditor
          Loop, %id%
          {
          this_ID := id%A_Index%
          WinActivate, ahk_id %this_ID% ; activate the most recently active window in this group
          break
          }
          }
          return


          https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm#List






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          • This works great. I was already using WinGet, id, list before to bring all windows in a certain class to front, just didn't think of using it for getting the topmost window
            – pfg
            Nov 11 at 5:52











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          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad

          F1::
          IfWinActive ahk_group TextEditor
          GroupActivate, TextEditor, R
          else
          {
          list := ""
          ; windows are retrieved in order from topmost to bottommost:
          WinGet, id, list, ahk_group TextEditor
          Loop, %id%
          {
          this_ID := id%A_Index%
          WinActivate, ahk_id %this_ID% ; activate the most recently active window in this group
          break
          }
          }
          return


          https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm#List






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          • This works great. I was already using WinGet, id, list before to bring all windows in a certain class to front, just didn't think of using it for getting the topmost window
            – pfg
            Nov 11 at 5:52















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          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad

          F1::
          IfWinActive ahk_group TextEditor
          GroupActivate, TextEditor, R
          else
          {
          list := ""
          ; windows are retrieved in order from topmost to bottommost:
          WinGet, id, list, ahk_group TextEditor
          Loop, %id%
          {
          this_ID := id%A_Index%
          WinActivate, ahk_id %this_ID% ; activate the most recently active window in this group
          break
          }
          }
          return


          https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm#List






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          • This works great. I was already using WinGet, id, list before to bring all windows in a certain class to front, just didn't think of using it for getting the topmost window
            – pfg
            Nov 11 at 5:52













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          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad

          F1::
          IfWinActive ahk_group TextEditor
          GroupActivate, TextEditor, R
          else
          {
          list := ""
          ; windows are retrieved in order from topmost to bottommost:
          WinGet, id, list, ahk_group TextEditor
          Loop, %id%
          {
          this_ID := id%A_Index%
          WinActivate, ahk_id %this_ID% ; activate the most recently active window in this group
          break
          }
          }
          return


          https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm#List






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          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad++
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_exe Code.exe
          GroupAdd, TextEditor, ahk_class Notepad

          F1::
          IfWinActive ahk_group TextEditor
          GroupActivate, TextEditor, R
          else
          {
          list := ""
          ; windows are retrieved in order from topmost to bottommost:
          WinGet, id, list, ahk_group TextEditor
          Loop, %id%
          {
          this_ID := id%A_Index%
          WinActivate, ahk_id %this_ID% ; activate the most recently active window in this group
          break
          }
          }
          return


          https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm#List







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          • This works great. I was already using WinGet, id, list before to bring all windows in a certain class to front, just didn't think of using it for getting the topmost window
            – pfg
            Nov 11 at 5:52


















          • This works great. I was already using WinGet, id, list before to bring all windows in a certain class to front, just didn't think of using it for getting the topmost window
            – pfg
            Nov 11 at 5:52
















          This works great. I was already using WinGet, id, list before to bring all windows in a certain class to front, just didn't think of using it for getting the topmost window
          – pfg
          Nov 11 at 5:52




          This works great. I was already using WinGet, id, list before to bring all windows in a certain class to front, just didn't think of using it for getting the topmost window
          – pfg
          Nov 11 at 5:52


















           

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