WinMoveTop

Brings the specified window to the top of the stack without explicitly activating it.

WinMoveTop WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

Parameters

WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

Type: String, Integer or Object

If each of these is blank or omitted, the Last Found Window will be used. Otherwise, specify for WinTitle a window title or other criteria to identify the target window and/or for WinText a substring from a single text element of the target window (as revealed by the included Window Spy utility).

ExcludeTitle and ExcludeText can be used to exclude one or more windows by their title or text. Their specification is similar to WinTitle and WinText, except that ExcludeTitle does not recognize any criteria other than the window title.

Window titles and text are case-sensitive. By default, hidden windows are not detected and hidden text elements are detected, unless changed with DetectHiddenWindows and DetectHiddenText; however, when using pure HWNDs, hidden windows are always detected regardless of DetectHiddenWindows. By default, a window title can contain WinTitle or ExcludeTitle anywhere inside it to be a match, unless changed with SetTitleMatchMode.

Error Handling

A TargetError is thrown if the window could not be found.

An OSError may be thrown on failure.

Remarks

However, the system default settings will probably cause it to activate in most cases. In addition, this function may have no effect due to the operating system's protection against applications that try to steal focus from the user (it may depend on factors such as what type of window is currently active and what the user is currently doing). One possible work-around is to make the window briefly always-on-top, then turn off always-on-top.

The ID of the window under the mouse cursor can be retrieved with MouseGetPos.

WinMoveBottom, WinSetAlwaysOnTop, Win functions, Control functions