DisplayFusion RSS: Highlight ACTIVE window

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:50:47 GMT

It looks like the history window is just a menu, there's nothing we can grab to detect it unfortunately.

Sorry!

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:53:12 GMT

Quote:

Could you send over the script you're using?

using System;
using System.Drawing;

// The 'windowHandle' parameter will contain the window handle for the:
// - Active window when run by hotkey
// - Window Location target when run by a Window Location rule
// - TitleBar Button owner when run by a TitleBar Button
// - Jump List owner when run from a Taskbar Jump List
// - Currently focused window if none of these match
public static class DisplayFusionFunction
{
public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle)
{
//remove highlights from all other applications
BFS.DisplayFusion.RunFunction("Highlight Window: Disable All Highlights");
BFS.DisplayFusion.RunFunctionAndWait("Highlight Window: Disable All Highlights");
//set the highlight colour of the window to red
BFS.Window.SetWindowHighlight(windowHandle, Color.Red);
}
}

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:11:42 GMT

Could you send over the script you're using?

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:01:47 GMT

Found this option and it works great. I constantly fight copy/paste issues with active windows, and for some reason the highlighting function has solved my issues.

But in Microsoft Edge it closes the history window as soon as it opens. Is there a simple way to stop this from happening?

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 13 May 2022 20:11:25 GMT

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@Fred: That script only disables the highlight on the window that triggered the script to run, then enables it. If you want it to remove highlights from other windows first, add this line right after line 15 in the script:

BFS.DisplayFusion.RunFunctionAndWait("Highlight Window: Disable All Highlights");

Thanks, looks good now!

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 09 May 2022 18:05:43 GMT

BFS.DisplayFusion.RunFunctionAndWait("Highlight Window: Disable All Highlights");

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:21:25 GMT

These are the settings I'm using (in the snapshot) and it works well for highlighting a window that I activate. But the red border does not go away after I activate another window. So all windows remain highlighted.

Why won't this script clear the red border when another window becomes the active window?

Thanks

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:39:11 GMT

@badz: Could you export the script you're using and attach it? I just want to make sure I'm testing with the same code as there have been a few revisions of this script posted.

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:56:02 GMT

Quote:

Hello,
This issue should be fixed up in the latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Please let me know if you still run into any trouble after updating.
Thanks!

Hi,
The minimize from taskbar does not work for me however on 9.8
Thanks

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:28:37 GMT

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@badz: It is expected, yeah. Trying to track the focused window and keep it highlighted doesn't really work very well, this is the best I've been able to come up with unfortunately.

Actually it is fine, I used the reg file and it seems to have created havoc on my system. I created my own trigger using the script above and it works fine(no cpu issue anymore).
Thanks a lot

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:44:08 GMT

@badz: It is expected, yeah. Trying to track the focused window and keep it highlighted doesn't really work very well, this is the best I've been able to come up with unfortunately.

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:17:50 GMT

Hi,
I try the script attached on 9.8 but it takes lots of cpu everytime I move any window. Is that normal?
Thanks

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:51:26 GMT

Hello,

This issue should be fixed up in the latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Please let me know if you still run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks!

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:23:55 GMT

Ok, we have an idea of what the issue might be here. We're going to make some changes for the next beta and then I'll post an update

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 05:27:20 GMT

Have tried that already and unfortunately, it doesn't. I have to completely disable the trigger and only then will it work again. At the moment, I have a crappy workaround. I took a registry backup of my DisplayFusion configuration, one with the trigger enabled and another with the trigger disabled.

I then have a powershell script that will call the different registry backup files for when I want to enable or disable the trigger. Ideally though, I just want to keep the trigger enabled and have it working properly all the time...

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:37:32 GMT

If you click somewhere in the window first, then click the taskbar button, does it minimize?

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:56:34 GMT

It was for every application, such as Firefox, Rambox, etc. Issue is intermittent. Sometimes it minimizes from taskbar fine, sometimes it doesn't.

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:45:09 GMT

@chaoscreator: When I test with your settings imported, it seems to work fine for me. Which applications are you having trouble minimizing with the taskbar button?

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:31:19 GMT

Thanks! I'll check this out and keep you posted on what I find.

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:26:19 GMT

Here you go.

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:16:37 GMT

@chaoscreator: Could you attach a backup of your settings? (Settings > Options > Export)

Thanks!

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 05:13:18 GMT

sorry to revive this old thread...

I'm using the reg key provided and it works for me. However, I noticed a small issue. When I have this Trigger enabled, if I were to click on an app in my taskbar to minimize it, then it will not work. The app will always restore to be the active window. The only way I can minimize it is to click on the minimize button on the top right corner of the window. However, sometimes it's easier and faster to just click the app in the taskbar to minimize it.

If I disable the Trigger, then this behaviour will be back to normal.

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:09:26 GMT

Ok, thanks Jim! I have put that on our feature request list

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:57:20 GMT

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Sounds good, if you can figure out the steps that cause it to happen that would be great!

Keith... I have watched this closely for several days now. I'm not able to figure out a pattern that causes it to become non-functional. If you have just a couple of different windows open and switch between the two, there is no problem. But sometimes clicking on a link or shortcut, causes another window to open, which that operation can cause again, another window to open. Somewhere in that process, the failure occurs. That said... sometimes it will start working at some point down the road without doing anything to re-enable it.

There is another function in DF, called Monitor Fading. This only highlights the 'inactive' monitors, but it seems to keep up nicely when you change monitors. So, if you could set up something like this... only with the Red Outline on the 'active' monitor, I think it would work great. That way there is much less for DF to track than switching with the active 'window'.

Just my 2cents worth.....

Thanks......
Jim

RE: Highlight ACTIVE window

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:46:59 GMT

Sounds good, if you can figure out the steps that cause it to happen that would be great!