Useful code to detect Window Title context?

[slewis]

I'm sharing the following short sequence of python commands that I've found extremely useful for detecting my application context, such as a browser whose context is best detected from the Window Title (because it's inadequately exposed by the events in the Task plugin):

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eg.result=eg.WinApi.GetWindowText(eg.WinApi.Dynamic.GetForegroundWindow())
eg.result.split(' - ')[0]=="YouTube XL"
If successful jump to SetYouTubeXLContext

I am posting them here for the benefit of others (as it took me quite some effort to work this out as a non-python coder), and to ask if anyone knows a simpler (non-python) way to do this?

And if not, perhaps some kind plugin developer out there might consider developing a new plugin (or enhancing the Windows plugin?) to support this functionality in a more user friendly manner, e.g.

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If ForegroundWindowTitle matches "YouTube XL - *" jump to SetYouTubeXLContext

Steve

[jinxdone]

Good idea. I'll put it on my to-do list incase nobody beats me to it.

I'm thinking a general purpose regexp (or just plain string compare) action would be useful too, so you could compare the eg.result and other variables and do some conditional jumps etc. based on that. It'd be easier to use for simple comparisons than having to use a python script each time.