Swapping Between World of Warcraft Windows in Windows 10

[mbox_bob]

The problem with this is obviously the WoW windows have the same name

Only if you haven't used https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinSetTitle.htm when you start up to give each window a unique name..........

[Eskimz]

Yea you're right I actually do have a section in the script where it grabs the 2 instances of WoW and assigns 1 as the main and one as the clone:

I'm just gonna post my script so you can see what I'm working with:

; For Dual-Boxing World of Warcraft
;    by Rests (aka Eskimz)

;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


; // Tell user what is about to happen upon start-up //
    SplashTextOn, 250, , Preparing to find your Main and Clone windows of WoW. 
    Sleep, 250
    SplashTextOff 


; // Grab unique window IDs //
    WinGet, wowid, List, World of Warcraft




; // Minimize All WoW windows //
    WinMinimize, ahk_id %wowid1% 
    WinMinimize, ahk_id %wowid2% 




; // Determine Main and Clone Windows //
    WinActivate, ahk_id %wowid1% 
    MsgBox, 4, , Is this your WoW Main window? (press Yes or No) 
    IfMsgBox Yes 
        idMain = %wowid1% 
    else 
        idMain = %wowid2% 


    If idMain = %wowid1% 
    {
        idClone = %wowid2% 
    }
    else
    {
        idClone = %wowid1% 
    }


; // Activate All WoW windows //
    WinActivate, ahk_id %idClone%
    WinActivate, ahk_id %idMain%




;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


; // Defines the ClonesPush function //
    ClonesPush(strKeys)
    {
        global idMain
        global idClone
        IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %idMain%
            ControlSend, , %strKeys%, ahk_id %idMain%
        IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %idClone%
            ControlSend, , %strKeys%, ahk_id %idClone%
    }




; // Defines the ClonesClick function //
    ClonesClick(strKeys)
    {
        global idMain
        global idClone
        IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %idMain%
            ControlClick, , ahk_id %idMain%, , %strKeys%, NA
        IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %idClone%
            ControlClick, , ahk_id %idClone%, , %strKeys%, NA
    }




;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


; // Hotkeys // 


    *^l::Suspend                                ; //  Ctrl + L        Suspends AHK
    ~!Tab::
        WinSet, Bottom, , A
        return




; // WoW Hotkeys //


    ~RButton Up::ClonesPush("=")                        ; //  RClick Up        Interact w/ Target


    ~^WheelUp::ClonesPush("-")                        ; //  Ctrl + Wheel Up    Interact w/ Target


    ~r Up::ClonesPush("r")                            ; //  r
    ~r::ClonesPush("=")                            ; //  r


    ~+g::ClonesPush("{Shift Down}g{Shift Up}")                ; //  Shift + g        (Follow)


    ~Space::ClonesPush("{Space}")                        ; //  Spacebar        (Jump)

Should be easier that way so you have more information.

[mbox_bob]

I actually know very little about AHK, just what I read on the site, and a quick squizz at the source.

A quick look shows me that I'd be inclined to create an Object and use that to store the game window ids as I found them, along with renaming window titles (and storing that too), and then use them in the Tab key to determine which window I was on, push that to the bottom, and then activate the next one in my list (if I can I like to set it up for expansion to more than 2).

I've not tried this, and having a quick read of the needed commands, it's not as trivial as I'd like to do this in the AHK script, but it should be relatively easy to create a couple of functions to be rather helpful to the whole process.