Explorer windows still tend to get incorrect focus

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An autohotkey desktop manager

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Explorer windows still tend to get incorrect focus #21

Closed shiro closed 3 years ago

shiro commented 7 years ago

Not a major issue, nonetheless pretty annoying in the daily workflow - if there are many explorer windows and the user switches screens a few times it often happens that the wrong one gets focus (especially on "my computer").

Is there no way to remember window handles and set focus accordingly (alt+tab is also quite visible and ugly)?

jpginc commented 7 years ago

I had noticed this behavior but it hadn't annoyed me enough to change it. The reason it happens is because My Computer has the ahk_exe of "explorer.exe". I've updated the window check in this commit: b5ec31308c36c1ea0a9ee5585bb878183e0cfd99

I agree that the alt+tab thing is a bit hacky but I don't know of a better way to do it. Any suggestions?

shiro commented 7 years ago

I just do simple scripting, but I'll look into it at some point. Anyways, thanks for the commit, explorer got a little bit less annoying today ^^.

jpgincus commented 3 years ago

This is fixed now. I use winget,,list + a dll call to check the windows desktop to find the appropriate window to focus