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MelBurslan
MelBurslan

Reputation: 2501

how do you get the title of the active window using autohotkey

I tried to use 

winget, title, ID
msgbox %title%

but the message box comes up blank. what am I missing here ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2834

Answers (1)

bgmCoder
bgmCoder

Reputation: 6371

If you wanted the window on the bottom you could utilize winactivatebottom but since you want the top one, you are going to have to loop through the windows, I think. This little snippet will give you the windows, and the index should be their order, I think.

Take a look at this snippet I fetched from here.

F2:: 
    WinGet, WindowList, List 
    ToolTip
    List =

    Loop %WindowList% 
    { 
    WinUID := WindowList%A_Index% 
    WinGetTitle, WinTitle, ahk_id %WinUID% 
    List = %List%Window %A_Index% of %WindowList%`n%WinTitle%`n%WinUID%`n`n
    }
    ToolTip  %List%
Return

However, if you don't need the topmost window, but only the active window, then you are in luck! Just use wingetactivetitle (straight from a simple search through the documenation's index. The docs are your friends!)

WinGetActiveTitle, TheTitle

Upvotes: 3

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