In Notepad (or a text editor of your choice), save a file with the.

There are a couple of common ways to create a script file:

Tip: If your browser supports it, you can download any code block (such as the one above) as a script file by clicking the button which appears in the top-right of the code block when you hover your mouse over it. A script can do as little as performing a single action and then exiting, but most scripts define a number of hotkeys, with each hotkey followed by one or more actions to take when the hotkey is pressed.

ahk filename extension containing instructions for the program, like a configuration file, but much more powerful. A script is simply a plain text file with the. With this you can go with mouse from one window to another in multimonitor setup and can directly use shortcuts without having to click the window before.Using the Program | AutoHotkey Using the ProgramĪutoHotkey doesn't do anything on its own it needs a script to tell it what to do. its not a good script for every program because it also raises the window to the front, but since i use blender windows only in fullscreen mode and popout windows automatically hover over the main window it works very nice in this case. The reason is that blender windows have no unique window class, just a ghost class, most of the other programs have defined window classes like “Chrome_WidgetWin” or “MozillaWindowClass_widget”…Īnybody up to make a bug report on blender developers with this ?Īnyways, ive written a simple auto hotkey script to kinda hack it on top, with this the blender windows are activated automatically. Edit: As a user reported the same faulty behaviour is also on mac. Windows 10 has a function build in to activate the window which is under the cursor automatically but if you use blender with multiple (popout) windows it doesnt toggle the main blender window somehow.

Auto hotkey script