Toggle Plugin Windows

Renoise Tool Development
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I often find myself with a couple of plugin windows open, which becomes annoying when I want to enter some notes because I have to drag the windows to one side, or close them and them open them again. Therefore I want to create a keyboard shortcut that toggles all open plugin windows.

I found these two properties:
renoise.song().instruments[1].plugin_properties.plugin_device.external_editor_visible
renoise.song().tracks[1].devices[2].external_editor_visible

So all I have to do is go through all instrument and devices and save the ones where the external editor is open. But if I have one plugin window on top of another, I would like it to still be on top after toggling on and off. So basically Im looking for a way to find out which external editor is on top at any given moment. I couldn’t figure out a way to do this. Anyone got any ideas?

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I doubt if this is possible at all even from within Renoise itself.

3

what OS? i think just using a general OS tool would suffice. yeah its not redistributable within a renoise tool, but it should work for you.

4

Trying to make this happen with some tool outside of Renoise is an interesting idea. I’m running Windows 7.

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if it were an older windows i’d say autohotkeys…but i’m sure one of the following things might work. i’m not that familiar with win7. windows on top of other windows

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Thanks. I’ll check it out.