Program to set hotkey to bring WoW Clients to front?

[Freddie]

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah you can do that. You have to rename at least four of the windows first so they each have a different name. You can make a hotkey that renames them like this:

<hotkey Ctrl N>
<sendpc local>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow1>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow2>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow3>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow4>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow5>

Now let's make a hotkey that brings window #3 to the foreground. Let's suppose you want to use F3 for that:

<hotkey F3>
<sendpc local>
<TargetWindow Wow3>
<SetForeground>

That's the whole thing.

[Freddie]

Lol we're crossing posts like crazy. As you can see you did it right. The only thing that's case sensitive is the names of windows (because Windows handles them that way).

[LancerX]

Lol we're crossing posts like crazy. As you can see you did it right. The only thing that's case sensitive is the names of windows (because Windows handles them that way).

Wow Thank you so much you just read my mind, I was fixing to ask you if it was possible to make a hotkey to rename the windows but you already told me, thank you. Now how do I set a hotkey for Control Shift Alt R hehe, ima go look now.

edit:

Which I do believe is like this

<hotkey Ctrl Shift Alt r>
<sendpc local>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow1>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow2>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow3>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow4>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow5>
<Hotkey F1>
<SendPC local>
<TargetWindow WoW1>
<SetForeground>
<Hotkey F2>
<SendPC local>
<TargetWindow WoW2>
<SetForeground>
<Hotkey F3>
<SendPC local>
<TargetWindow WoW3>
<SetForeground>
<Hotkey F4>
<SendPC local>
<TargetWindow WoW4>
<SetForeground>
<Hotkey F5>
<SendPC local>
<TargetWindow WoW5>
<SetForeground>

[Freddie]

To learn the name of a key in HKN, press the key and look in HKN's upper right corner. But I'll save you some time:

<Hotkey ctrl alt shift R>

if you want to distinguish the left and right side keys so you can make two different hotkeys, you can do this instead:

<Hotkey Lctrl Lalt Lshift R>
<Hotkey Rctrl Ralt Rshift R>

(You don't have to capitalize the R's and L's that way -- I just did it for emphasis.)

[LancerX]

To learn the name of a key in HKN, press the key and look in HKN's upper right corner. But I'll save you some time:

<Hotkey ctrl alt shift R>

if you want to distinguish the left and right side keys so you can make two different hotkeys, you can do this instead:

<Hotkey Lctrl Lalt Lshift R>
<Hotkey Rctrl Ralt Rshift R>

(You don't have to capitalize the R's and L's that way -- I just did it for emphasis.)

Awesome Thank you so much.

I ran the script above and it said it could not find the windows after I ran the hotkey to rename it did rename them but just not in order that I loaded them for some reason. So anyway it would not bring any of the windows to the front for some reason. Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?

[Freddie]

Looks good but it's hard to check a long script like that by eye, so load it into HKN and see what happens. Good luck.

[LancerX]

Looks good but it's hard to check a long script like that by eye, so load it into HKN and see what happens. Good luck.

Ok so I ran the script and this is what it says.

From this pc: <TargetWindow WoW1><SetForeground>
<TargetWindow> failed: Window not found.
<SetForeground> failed: No window is targeted.

From this pc: <TargetWindow WoW2><SetForeground>
<TargetWindow> failed: Window not found.
<SetForeground> failed: No window is targeted.

From this pc: <TargetWindow WoW3><SetForeground>
<TargetWindow> failed: Window not found.
<SetForeground> failed: No window is targeted.

From this pc: <TargetWindow WoW4><SetForeground>
<TargetWindow> failed: Window not found.
<SetForeground> failed: No window is targeted.

From this pc: <TargetWindow WoW5><SetForeground>
<TargetWindow> failed: Window not found.
<SetForeground> failed: No window is targeted.


Also is there a way to maximize the windows? and is there a way to get it to rename them in order wow1,wow2 and so forth, it seems to rename them in random order.

Thanks in advance for the much needed help and advice. Very much appreciated.

[Freddie]

The windows are not found because of the case sensitivity issue. Wow vs WoW (final W).

[LancerX]

The windows are not found because of the case sensitivity issue. Wow vs WoW (final W)

Duh, thanks allot, I just figured that out when you wrote this. Thanks a ton, I feel stupid for bothering you now but thanks allot.
I am going to go see if I can find any functions to maximize the windows on your site.

[Freddie]

I don't mind helping like this. It's actually useful to me beause it gives me a chance to see which aspects of the program give people trouble. Big software companies have to pay specialists to observe paid users in test rooms to obtain that kind of info ... but here we are doing it for free.

The answer on maximize is, I don't think I implemented that but I'll add it now if you want it ... it has to get added eventually so now is a good time.

The answer on the renaming order is that normally HKN gives you three methods to control that, but only two work with WoW because of WoW's security features. (I could probably get around them but I don't want to do anything that could put users at risk.)

One way to handle it is to keep the hotkey we just defined. What it's doing is renaming the windows in Z-order from front to back. (The foreground window is in front). So what you have to do is arrange the windows from front to back before you hit the key.

The other way is to make five new hotkeys, one for each window. Click each window individually so it's in the foreground, then hit the appropriate hotkey.