Re: Program launches in background

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:39:46 +0000, Bob Henson <>
wrote:

>I use Double Explorer quite a lot (under Windows 7 64bit), so I assigned
>a hot-key to it with AutoHotkey. When I launch it from the hot-key, the
>splash screen shows on top, but the program opens in the background.
>When I launch it from the icon on the Windows taskbar, it opens on top -
>which, of course, is what I want.
>
>Can any AutoHotkey and/or Windows user tell me why there should be a
>difference? I can't find any Windows setting to force a problem to open
>in the foreground or otherwise, so I haven't a clue as to why it should
>happen that way.

Is there a difference in the way the program gets launched? Check the
target properties of the taskbar icon and compare that with the way
you've set up the AutoHK shortcut. Maybe something will shake out.

--

Char Jackson

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:37:26 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:39:46 +0000, Bob Henson <>
> wrote:
>
> >I use Double Explorer quite a lot (under Windows 7 64bit), so I assigned
> >a hot-key to it with AutoHotkey. When I launch it from the hot-key, the
> >splash screen shows on top, but the program opens in the background.
> >When I launch it from the icon on the Windows taskbar, it opens on top -
> >which, of course, is what I want.
> >
> >Can any AutoHotkey and/or Windows user tell me why there should be a
> >difference? I can't find any Windows setting to force a problem to open
> >in the foreground or otherwise, so I haven't a clue as to why it should
> >happen that way.
>
> Is there a difference in the way the program gets launched? Check the
> target properties of the taskbar icon and compare that with the way
> you've set up the AutoHK shortcut. Maybe something will shake out.

Good advice. And if that doesn't reveal anything, AutoHotkey has a
WinActivate command. I haven't used that command myself, but from
the name it sounds like it would make the window active.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On 13/01/2012 4:24 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:37:26 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:39:46 +0000, Bob Henson <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I use Double Explorer quite a lot (under Windows 7 64bit), so I assigned
>>> a hot-key to it with AutoHotkey. When I launch it from the hot-key, the
>>> splash screen shows on top, but the program opens in the background.
>>> When I launch it from the icon on the Windows taskbar, it opens on top -
>>> which, of course, is what I want.
>>>
>>> Can any AutoHotkey and/or Windows user tell me why there should be a
>>> difference? I can't find any Windows setting to force a problem to open
>>> in the foreground or otherwise, so I haven't a clue as to why it should
>>> happen that way.
>>
>> Is there a difference in the way the program gets launched? Check the
>> target properties of the taskbar icon and compare that with the way
>> you've set up the AutoHK shortcut. Maybe something will shake out.
>
> Good advice. And if that doesn't reveal anything, AutoHotkey has a
> WinActivate command. I haven't used that command myself, but from
> the name it sounds like it would make the window active.
>

I'll have a look at that, it might well be the answer. It's such a long
complicated doc file I haven't read it all - many of the functions
aren't needed here anyway. Thanks for the tip.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


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