#Windowswitcher code#
#Windowswitcher windows#

iswitchw-plus - Incrementally switch between windows using substrings

Under an English Windows translation: I don't know exactly guess searching for 'sticky' in control panel will get you there.

Under a German Windows installation, it can be found in: Center für erleichterte Bedienung -> Bedienung der Tastatur erleichtern -> Einrastfunktion einrichten -> Einrastfunktion nach fünfmaligen Drücken der UMSCHALT-Taste aktivieren.

Windows' StickyKeys feature should be disabled for using the Shift key repeatedly.

With AutoHotkeyU64.exe or AutoHotkey.exe, not all icons are shown correctly.

On my system (Windows 7 64 bit), this script must be run with AutohotkeyU32.exe or AutohotkeyA32.exe.

The default Caps lock behaviour is bound to AltGr+CapsLock (but any modifier except the bound Shift seems to toggle Caps lock).

I don't know yet whether it is even possible to get all relevant events (window closed, opened, resized, title changed) though.

draw something tab-like over grouped windows' title bars, showing the title text of its related windows.

when a window is closed (not necessarily by this script), focus the most recently used window of the same group, if any.

Windows of same group should feel like tabs of a single window.

If the main hotkey is with a modifier, releasing the modifier should activate the selected window like standard Alt+Tab does.

So I will probably cycle in some Z-order independant order (window ID?) instead.

Shift+CapsLock: neither the current 'WinSet, Bottom' way nor WinActivateBottom-like behaviour is perfect.

Possible future plans (ordered from most likely to unlikely)

show index for first ten windows also if there are more than ten.

delay before auto-activating only remaining non-filtered window (to avoid accidentally typing in that window what was meant as a filter to this script).

=> hitting CapsLock twice always focuses the 2nd most recenlty used window

initially select the 2nd window in Z-order (not necessarily the 2nd row).

Shift+CapsLock: cycle windows of currently focused group (without showing GUI).

changed hotkeys for existing functions:.

show normal icon only for 1st window in group a '>'-like icon for others.

group windows of same application (or whatever function windowGroupConf defines see source code).

#Windowswitcher code#

Changes (marked with '42td' in the code - except maybe some trivial ones and those I forgot): Here's a modified version of jixiuf's iswitchw-plus.ahk.