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• Menu Popup Based on Active Window Title

  Dlovell > 2025-11-17 18:20

  Hi there,
  
  It would be extremely helpful if the software could detect text within the active window’s title and automatically open a specific submenu based on a partial match.
  We often need to paste 5–10 snippets into the same window, and currently we have to trigger the hotkey for the submenu repeatedly. The following features would make our workflow significantly faster:
  
  Requested Features
  

  1. Search active window title (with partial match)
     • Ability to trigger a submenu when certain words appear anywhere within the window’s title bar.
       
  2. Menu stays on top while the target window is active
     • Keeps the snippet menu visible without being hidden behind other windows.
       
  3. Menu remains open after selecting a snippet
     • Prevents having to reopen the menu after every paste action.
       
  4. Remember last menu position OR allow a fixed position
     • Useful when pasting many items into the same window repeatedly.
       

  
  Why this would help
  We regularly paste multiple snippets into specific windows. Being able to trigger the submenu based on the window title and keep it open on top would save a huge amount of repetitive hotkey usage. Your software is fantastic—these additions would make it even better. Thanks again for all your hard work!
  
  Thanks 
  Doug

• RE: Menu Popup Based on Active Window Title

  Jean Lalonde > 2025-11-18 14:16

  Interesting suggestion. About #2 and #3, this is not technically possible using standard Windows menu (as QAP does) to keep the menu on top or reopen it after a selection. But if you create a "Group" containing your snippets for a given application, you can use these options to reopen the menu after a selection:
  
  
  
  About your suggestion to open a submenu based on a search in the active window title, this good idea is added to the wishlist:
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=3110

• RE: Menu Popup Based on Active Window Title

  Jean Lalonde > 2025-11-18 14:16

  And welcome to the QAP forum :-)

• RE: Menu Popup Based on Active Window Title

  Xavier > 2025-11-19 03:17

  My own ahk script react like this, show predefined menus over particular apps 
  
  You have to use ...   winget, A_Pro, processname, A   and\or   WinGetTitle, A_Title, A
  
  ... and then use...
  
  If WinActive("ahk_exe ???") { in here I tell it which menu to open via qapMesseneger eg... Run, %QAPm% LaunchFavorite "> If > %A_Pro%" (this one has dynamic output) -OR- Run, %QAPm% LaunchFavorite "> Gaming" (this one is static, they same menu will how overtop of 5 programs that grouped in my script) }
  
  It's a tricky set of variables to work with...
  
  I did work out a way to set up menus with specific naming, to match what my ahk script could output. The hotkey in my script calls menu from qapMesseneger based on the process name of the active app processname. Window title can be worked with too with a few extra lines. additionally I also have my own ahk script read QAP.ini and store its sub menus in a list so that I can match them to active process for better filtering...
  
  
  
  

  Code:

          Q_A_Pro() ;; this is in the autoEXE area of my script so I can use it in hotkeys, menus and guis...
        {
             If (IsLL)
                Tip("* Loading... Q_A_Pro()")
            global Q_Pro := ""
            Loop {
                IniRead, line, %qini%, Favorites, Favorite%A_Index%
                if (line = "ERROR" || line = "")
                    break
                StringSplit, parts, line, |
                FavoriteType := parts1
                FavoriteName := parts2
                if (FavoriteType = "Menu" && FavoriteName != "") {
                    Q_Pro .= (Q_Pro = "" ? "" : "`n") . Trim(FavoriteName)
                }
            }
            ; box(q_pro)
        }
;; and this is a couple examples of how I call QAP to show me dynamic menus based on the active app.
;; complete with my debugging comments calling tooltips and msgbox cause this was a little tricky to figure out.
Capslock & q:: ;; Caps+, show live QAP %a_program% menu
            QAPOpenAppNotesMenuViaTyporaDoc:
global obsanx_filepath := ""
global typopath := ""
if WinActive("ahk_exe Typora.exe")
{
                WinGetTitle, TypoTit, A
                typopath := RegExReplace(typotit, " - Typora", "")
if FileExist(typopath)
{
SplitPath, typopath,,typodir,,typostem
                    ; tooltip wtf ahk typo is active`n typostem= %typostem%`n`n typordir=%typo% anxdir=%AppNotesDir%`n%q_pro%
if (typodir = AppNotesDir)
{
typoif := typostem ".exe"
if InStr(q_pro, typoif)
                            {
                                ; tip("q_pro=" q_pro "`nTypoIf=" typoif "typostem=" typostem, 7000)
run, %qapm% LaunchFavorite "> If > %typoif%"
                            }
else
run, %qapm% LaunchFavorite "> If > Typora.exe"
}
                    else
                        run, %qapm% LaunchFavorite "> If > Typora.exe"
}
else
                {
                    run, %qapm% LaunchFavorite "> If > Typora.exe"
                    ; tooltip %qapm%`ntp:%typopath%
                }
                return
}
if WinActive("ahk_exe Obsidian.exe")
{
gosub GetActiveFilePathFromObsidianTitleBar
splitpath, obsanx_filepath,,,,obsanx_stem
obsif := obsanx_stem ".exe"
; tooltip your are here  %obsanx_filepath%`nobstit=%OBSTitle%`n`noif=%obsif%
if InStr(q_pro, obsif)
run, %qapm% LaunchFavorite "> If > %obsif%"
else
run, %qapm% LaunchFavorite "> If > Obsidian.exe" ; gosub QAPLiveMenu
return
}
else
{
                    ; box("else=`n " A_linefile "at line=" A_linenumber "`n wft ahk #3`ngosub qaplivemenu`%A_linenumber`%: ")
                    gosub QAPLiveMenu
                }
        return
       
        ShowQAPif:
        QAPLiveMenu:
            winget, A_Pro, processname, A
            ; WinGetTitle, A_Title, A
            ; box(A_pro)
            ; if (A_Title = "- Do X -")
            ; {
; Run, %QAPm% LaunchFavorite "> If > -x DASH x-"
; return
            ; }
            ; if (A_Title = "-x DASH x-")
            ; {
; Run, %QAPm% LaunchFavorite "> If > %A_Title%"
; return
            ; }
            if WinActive("ahk_exe AnyDesk.exe") || WinActive("ahk_exe steamwebhelper.exe") || WinActive("ahk_exe SteamLink.exe") || WinActive("ahk_exe Yuzu.exe") || WinActive("ahk_exe Ryujinx.exe")
            {
                Run, %QAPm% LaunchFavorite "> Gaming"
                return
            }
            ; box("A_pro=" A_pro)
            ; Box(QAPm  " LaunchFavorite "> If > " A_Pro "`n a motherfucking line number=" A_LineNumber ", 4)
            ; Box("A_linefile=" A_linefile "`n A_linenumber=" A_linenumber , 4)
            ; box("run, " qapm " LaunchFavorite > if > " A_pro , 4 )
           
            Run, %QAPm% LaunchFavorite "> If > %A_Pro%"
            ; Run, "C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" LaunchFavorite "> Sub1 > Sub2 > FavName" ;; example from help
        return

  
  
  I described my code to execute this in this post.... https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=3025
  
  its certainly doable, it took me a couple week of yelling at ahk to get this work. hahaha. BUT how Jean could build this into ahk, I'm not sure. his code for QAP is WAY over my head to read, I don't understand how to use classes like he does
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