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• Activate App without Windowname
• Active Window Height and Width in Pixels
• Capturing info from Scrolling Screen
• Center Window Without Resizing
• Change Position of Message and Display Box
• Close all active Windows
• Close all windows of a particular application type
• Detecting Owner or Parent Window
• Distinguish between Two Windows with Same Name
• Explanation of Child Windows
• Figure out parent and child windows
• Figure out when an Untitled Window has Closed
• Find Windows Location on Remote Win95 Machine
• Get Active Child Window
• Get Array of Window Ids With Matching Title
• Get Process ID for Unknown Window Title
• Get the Size of the Active Window
• Get Unknown Windowname
• GetWorkArea Window Resize
• How to get a previously active window
• Hwnd to WinID Function Conversions
• Keep a Window On Top
• Loop Forever until a Window Appears
• Make Message non active window
• Minimize All Windows
• Obtain the Window Class Name
• Probe Windows Code
• Process depending upon Multiple Windows
• Reading Buttons and Child Windows
• Recognize when a Windows Close Box has Ungrayed
• Use WinGetActive to Get Active Window
• WinClose Question
• Window Information EXE Fails to Launch
• Window placement on multi monitor screen
• WinExist and WinWaitClose Problems
• WinIDGet to Handle Changing Window Name
• WinItemize and Dont Show System Hidden Windows
• WinItemize Return Order
• WinPlace on High Resolution Monitor
• WinPlaceGet and WinPlaceSet Negative Values Issue

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How to get a previously active window

Keywords:  last active window previous winitemize WinGetActive	 

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Answer:

 listofwin=WinItemize()
 prevwin=Itemextract(2,listofwin,@TAB);gets second item in the list
 Message("Got Previous Window","Previous Window is %prevwin%")

Article ID:   W13368

Filename:   How to get a previously active window.txt

File Created: 1999:04:15:16:53:34

Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:53:34