determening the top most windows

[orennahum]

Hello,

I want to send an event to an application only if the application is currently the active application (top most window). How can I do that ?

Thanks,
Oren

[Bartman]

use the find window action.
you don't send events to application but use events to trigger actions.

[orennahum]

I'm using the find window action. But I also want to know if that window belongs to the top most application, otherwise if want to stop.

How can I do that ?

Thanks,
Oren

[Bartman]

If you check the only foremost window action you will only get the foremost window.
Do you want to combine the search for a specific program and that the fact that is the foremost window?

[orennahum]

exactly, this is what i want.

Oren

[orennahum]

anyone ?

[Bartman]

This involves some scripting. Although probably only a few lines I have to take a look at the code first.

[orennahum]

i will appreciate it.

Oren

[orennahum]

anyone ?

[Bartman]

After switching to Win7 here is the script.
This sends an "A" to notepad if it is the foreground window.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="0">
    <Folder Name="ForegroundWindow" Expanded="True">
        <Macro Name="Emulate Keystrokes: A" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="GameVoice.Command" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.PythonScript(u'from eg.WinApi.Dynamic import GetForegroundWindow\nfrom eg.WinApi.Utils import GetWindowProcessName\nhwnd = GetForegroundWindow()\nif hwnd:\n    processName = GetWindowProcessName(hwnd)\n    if processName == "notepad.exe":\n        eg.result = hwnd\n    else:\n        eg.result = None\nelse:\n    eg.result = None\n        ')
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.NewJumpIf(XmlIdLink(1384), 1, False)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                Window.SendKeys(u'A', False)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Comment" id="1384" Expanded="True">
            <Action>
                EventGhost.Comment()
            </Action>
        </Macro>
    </Folder>
</EventGhost>

[SANGER_A2]

The OP didn't bother to reply and thank you Bartman. So although I'm resurrecting a dead thread, I'm doing it for him! This is one of quite a few threads I've looked through when trying to solve the same problem and your solution is the easiest to understand and use and it works great for me.

So THANK YOU!