Moving any window with ALT + mouse

This is one of my favourites AutoHotkey scripts. You'll see why…

Moving a window usually needs clicking on the title bar and dragging with the mouse.

There is an easier way: press the ALT key, then click everywhere in the window you wish to move and then the window will follow the mouse pointer. Release the mouse button when you're done. Easy and fast!

 

; Note: You can optionally release the ALT key after pressing down the mouse button
; rather than holding it down the whole time.

~Alt & LButton::
    CoordMode, Mouse  ; Switch to screen/absolute coordinates.
    MouseGetPos, EWD_MouseStartX, EWD_MouseStartY, EWD_MouseWin
    WinGetPos, EWD_OriginalPosX, EWD_OriginalPosY,,, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%
    WinGet, EWD_WinState, MinMax, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%
    if EWD_WinState = 0  ; Only if the window isn't maximized
        SetTimer, EWD_WatchMouse, 10 ; Track the mouse as the user drags it.
return

EWD_WatchMouse:
    GetKeyState, EWD_LButtonState, LButton, P
    if EWD_LButtonState = U  ; Button has been released, so drag is complete.
    {
        SetTimer, EWD_WatchMouse, off
        return
    }
    
    GetKeyState, EWD_EscapeState, Escape, P
    if EWD_EscapeState = D  ; Escape has been pressed, so drag is cancelled.
    {
        SetTimer, EWD_WatchMouse, off
        WinMove, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%,, %EWD_OriginalPosX%, %EWD_OriginalPosY%
        return
    }
    
    ; Otherwise, reposition the window to match the change in mouse coordinates
    ; caused by the user having dragged the mouse:
    CoordMode, Mouse
    MouseGetPos, EWD_MouseX, EWD_MouseY
    WinGetPos, EWD_WinX, EWD_WinY,,, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%
    SetWinDelay, -1   ; Makes the below move faster/smoother.
    WinMove, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%,, EWD_WinX + EWD_MouseX - EWD_MouseStartX, EWD_WinY + EWD_MouseY - EWD_MouseStartY
    EWD_MouseStartX := EWD_MouseX  ; Update for the next timer-call to this subroutine.
    EWD_MouseStartY := EWD_MouseY
return

 

Use this script to move any window, included any undocked Studio windows.

I believe this is the way Linux users move windows.

BTW: It's not my code. It just works!

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