How to differentiate between a left-click and a left-click and drag action?

Question

I have an application (Royal TS) which embeds PuTTY sessions within the application's main window. However, if another application's window is obscuring the embedded PuTTY session, and I click on the embedded PuTTY session, the Royal TS window does not come to the front.

So, I tried to resolve this with the following AutoHotKey script:

LButton::                             ; Detect left mouse button click
MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos, win_id       ; Get mouse position and window ID 
WinGetTitle, title, ahk_id %win_id%   ; Get window title
WinGetClass, class, ahk_id %win_id%   ; Get window class

if class=PuTTY                        ; If clicked in an emmbeded PuTTY window...
{                                     ;
  IfWinExist, Royal TS                ; ...and Royal TS is running...
  {                                   ;
    WinActivate                       ; ...bring Royal TS to the front
  }                                   ;
}                                     ;
else                                  ; Else, it wasn't a PuTTY window clicked...
{                                     ;
  MouseClick, left, xpos, ypos        ; ...just pass mouse button click through
}                                     ;
return                                ;

This works fine...up to a point. The problem occurs when I attempt to click and hold any application's title bar to drag it (or resize an application's window) the script runs and intercepts my left button but the intention to drag or resize a window is lost because of the MouseClick command towards the end of the script.

How can I differentiate between a left-click and a left-click and drag action?

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-25T15:43:11

Change your LButton:: to ~LButton:: and remove the else statement.

~ will make left mouse button work as usual, but will still run the code.

How to differentiate between a left-click and a left-click and drag action?

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