Added in 2.6.0:
acGetAllWindows([0 or 1]) action which populates a global table (created in C++, not by you) named sp_all_windows. This allows you to loop through the table and do whatever you'd like. For example, you want an action which finds all windows of a certain title/class/EXE and does something with them. Passing 1 only returns top-level desktop windows (usually what you'll want to do), passing 0 returns ALL window handles (a lot); for example, I had 5 programs open, passing 1 returns 5 results consisting of just the main window handles for each app. Passing 0 returned a table of 380 handles! Remember, each button, text box, etc. is considered a window and gets a handle. I'm certain there will be apps which use weird hidden windows as the owner and might be incorrectly represented in a top-level request, but that should be very rare.
Example script (only gets top-level windows):acGetAllWindows(1)
for num, handle in pairs(sp_all_windows) do
local sMsg = "EXE: "..acGetExecutableName(handle,0,0)
sMsg = sMsg.."\nClass: "..acGetClassName(handle,0,0)
sMsg = sMsg.."\nTitle: "..acGetWindowTitle(handle,0,0)
acMessageBox(sMsg,"Index: "..num,nil)
end
Note that this function only considers desktop top-level windows, not Win 8 Metro apps; you'd need to pass 0 and work through that yourself...not that there's much use I can think of for this functionality in dealing with Metro apps.
[ADDED] acGetAllWindows()
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Posted - 01/29/2013 : 06:44:45
). I would really like to force some apps to hide instead of minimizing to taskbar (Skype, for example). Would it be possible to add something like acHideWindow? Or maybe there's another way you could point me to?