How to get the active window's title with AutoHotKey?

Question

I wrote this short test code, but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong?

F12::
WinGetTitle, Title, A ;
MsgBox, "%Title%"

The displayed result was ""

You simply need a space in front of the `;` for it to work, without the space the `;` is taken as part of the windows title — blackholyman, Jan 22 '15 at 12:13

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '12 at 16:12

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I removed a ; and added return and this worked...

F12::
WinGetTitle, title, A
MsgBox, "%title%"
return

answered Feb 02 '12 at 16:12

Schwarzie2478

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 17 '17 at 23:10

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The best practice would probably be to use WinGetActiveTitle:

F12::
   WinGetActiveTitle, Title
   MsgBox, The active window is "%Title%".
return

edited Aug 17 '17 at 23:10

Stevoisiak

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answered Mar 24 '16 at 15:16

Forivin

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note the output cointains also the program name see https://stackoverflow.com/a/56165323/2043349 – Thierry Dalon May 16 '19 at 09:31

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 23:15

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If you do not put in a return it will run down your whole file.

Probably something not running through later in it.

Don't think the ; will affect it.

Anything after a ; is omitted from code as a comment.

answered Jun 05 '14 at 23:15

user3712978

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 16 '19 at 16:03

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In AutoHotKey 2 you can use this:

title := WinGetTitle("A")  ; "A" matches "Active" window

In AutoHotKey 1 you can use:

WinGetActiveTitle, title

answered Jun 16 '19 at 16:03

vitaliydev

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 16 '19 at 09:31

Using WinGetActiveTitle or WinGetTitle will do. Note the output of WinGetTitle contains more than the window title. You might want to remove the ending part with the program name e.g." - Google Chrome".

WinGetActiveTitle, Title
StringGetPos,pos,Title,%A_space%-,R
if (pos != -1)
    Title := SubStr(Title,1,pos)

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 14 '23 at 08:14

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If anyone else want to find the active windows info by autohotkey

Just run WindowSpy.ahk

The location is in your folder of AutoHotkey.exe

answered Mar 14 '23 at 08:14

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How to get the active window's title with AutoHotKey?

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