WinShow

Unhides the specified window.

WinShow 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. Hidden windows are always detected regardless of DetectHiddenWindows. By default, hidden text elements are detected unless changed with DetectHiddenText. 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, except if the group mode is used.

Remarks

By default, WinShow is the only function that can always detect hidden windows. Other built-in functions can detect them only if DetectHiddenWindows has been turned on.

This function operates only upon the topmost matching window except when WinTitle is ahk_group GroupName, in which case all windows in the group are affected.

WinHide, SetTitleMatchMode, DetectHiddenWindows, Last Found Window

Examples

Opens Notepad, waits until it exists, hides it for a short time and unhides it.

Run "notepad.exe"
WinWait "Untitled - Notepad"
Sleep 500
WinHide ; Use the window found by WinWait.
Sleep 1000
WinShow ; Use the window found by WinWait.