close active window with Hotkey

[Joe Glines]

Someone asked me if I had a hotkey for closing the active window. For about 20 years I’ve been hitting Alt+F4 and I realized that this is not very convenient so I wrote the following to close the active window.

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#c:: ; Windows and C closes active window
WinGetTitle, Title, A
PostMessage, 0x112, 0xF060,,, %Title%
return

[Bon]

Using Win-C is also a bit awkward... There is a more convenient way:
http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/8 ... modifiers/

[lexikos]

Retrieving and then using the title introduces a small risk that it will close the wrong window - i.e. if there's a window with the same title or one that includes that string in its title, though it might also have to be higher in the z-order than the active window (which is rare but possible).

In any case, it seems quite unnecessary. Why not just use A?

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#c::PostMessage, 0x112, 0xF060,,, A

Also, I'm not aware of any reason to use PostMessage over WinClose.

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#c::WinClose A

Since you're replacing an existing hotkey, there's another way which is more obvious than PostMessage:

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#c::Send !{F4}

However, Alt+F4 doesn't work on console windows.

[h0ll0w]

Joetazz thanks for this! This stuff has bugged me for years (long keypress combinations).

Bon - the idea for using KeyWait is awesome!

You guys made my day! Cheers!

[Joe Glines]

I agree I like the code from Bon to hold down a key and have it close the window. Funny how I hadn't thought abuot this even though I'd been using AutoHotKey for about 7 years now.

[zyfihx]

Awesome, thanks ! I use windows on a mac and when I switch over I love the shortcuts to be the same : alt + q = quit and now I have a way to somewhat equal that in windows Thanks !!!