Can I switch between windows of the same type using AutoHotkey?

Question

I know how to create an AutoHotkey script to switch to (say) a Firefox window.

But suppose I have a number of Firefox windows open. I would like the key to switch to the next window each time it is pressed.

Edit - firefox was just an example. It could be PuTTY windows I wanted.

Answer 1

Try the WinActivateBottom command instead of WinActivate.

This activates the LEAST recently used window - and seeing as when you activate that, it's no longer the least recently used, this can be used to loop through every window.

; This hotkey WIN+A allows you to visit all open Firefox windows in order from oldest to newest:
#a::
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WinActivateBottom, - Mozilla Firefox
return

Answer 2

Here's how this can be done.

1. get active window title and class.
2. get a list of all windows of that class.
3. switch to the next window in that list.

Answer 3

I think if you use a recent version of Firefox, you can use the tabs within it every time you want to open a new web page. You can browse through different tabs using Ctrl + Page Down. I am sure you can write an AutoHotkey program to do just that.