Taymurf
3 discussion posts
Hello everyone,
I have been searching online for a way to make it so that I can use my mouse wheel scroll through the alt-tab function while holding down a hotkey. I would love to be able to bind the hotkey to my mouse so I can just hold down a mouse button, scroll through with the wheel, and then release the mouse button to select the program.
Is this possible? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
The DisplayFusion Alt+Tab Handler allows you to use the mouse wheel if the mouse cursor is over top of any part of the Alt+Tab window. Unfortunately DisplayFusion doesn't have a way to bind the Alt+Tab hotkey to a mouse button, but if your mouse allows you to set bindings for keyboard shortcuts, you could probably set it to hold alt+tab.
Hope that helps!
Taymurf
3 discussion posts
I have tried that exact thing, the only issue is that if I hold alt tab on a button with my mouse then it cycles through at a very fast rate and doesn't allow me to use the mouse wheel. I would need to find a way to bind a button that would hold alt until I release the button but then just tap tab once and release it so that the alt tab menu stays active without cycling through it.
It might be possible to do this using a Scripted Function. We'll have a look when we've got a few minutes to see what we can find out.
Taymurf
3 discussion posts
Thank you, I look forward to hearing back.
We weren't able to make this work using a Scripted Function, so I've added it to our feature request list. We'll be sure to let you know if/when we're able to add a Function that will keep Alt+Tab open until something is selected.
Thanks!
bh3
1 discussion post
can you bind a mouse button to the ctrl-alt-tab key combo?
Zibob
1 discussion post
(Sorry for the wall of text)
To OP (and anyone else searching for this)
You could use AutoHotKey for this, however if you want to use the DisplayFusion version of the alt tab menu you need to run the script as an admin, else it won't work. I also put in the wheel up and down to add the scrolling functionality for the standard windows alt tab, this needs to be removed if you don't use it.
To run it as admin at startup you need to make it a task in Task Scheduler and checkmark "Run with highest privileges" and make the trigger "at log on" I compile it before because working with .exe is easier than .ahk (it's in the right-click menu if you get AHK_L (aka 1.1.*) not sure about the other versions)
Copy paste the following block into a .txt file and save as filename.ahk
;replace XButton1 with the button you want to use. Sadly AHK only supports up to MB5 so if you have more you'll need to remap e.g. MB10 to "ctrl+alt+shift+numpad9" in your mouse software and then make the hotkey "^!+numpad9".
^Pause::Suspend ;Will suspend the script if you press Ctrl+Pause, will resume when pressed again
*XButton1::send {Alt down}{Tab down}{Tab up} ;XButton1 is MouseButton4 (or Browser_Back)
~XButton1 & WheelDown::send {Tab} ;Remove if you use DisplayFusion Alt+Tab (don't forget to run as admin)
~XButton1 & WheelUp::send {LShift down}{Tab down}{LShift up}{Tab up} ;Same
*XButton1 up::send {Alt up}
And to the necroër you can do that by adding a "Ctrl" in there.
Wow that looks convoluted, hope it helps.
