WindowTop alternative suggestiongs #271
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Can anyone suggest alternatives to WindowTop that are less buggy? I really like and somewhat need a program like this, but it is extremely buggy. All the settings I have tried either do the opposite of what they say or they work sometimes and not others. The primary features of being able to show a window that is transparent, click through, and on top of all other windows (can always be seen behind them), is working worse and worse. At first it basically worked, but only if you know how to work around the bugs. Now I can't seem to get it to work with anything other than one other window. I understand software development is hard and users need to report bugs and be patient, but there should still be some level of already existing quality, especially for a product you are expected to pay for. I am not going to report all these issues and wait for them to be fixed when the quality is this bad, I need an alternative. UPDATE: |
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Let's get to the point; currently, you will not find any alternative for the "Glass" (smart transparency) feature and not for the dark mode feature, Anchors feature, and probably also not for the PiP feature (and maybe I am missing a few more features). By the way, if you claim that the app is extremely buggy, I expect to see it in its ratings, and I expect more user reports via the contact form. This is not the case. The app rating in Microsoft Store is 4.7-4.8 (of 5.0 maximum rating) according to 495 users. |
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I just spend an hour and a half learning AutoHotKey and working up a script to do what I needed. It works well enough and is a slightly better solution for me than WindowTop, but I can now understand better why it is difficult to get a program like this to work correctly. It seems many programs fight against these window changes in different ways under various circumstances. I'm having slightly better luck using Firefox as my behind window than Chrome. I'm currently liking this solution slightly better than WindowTop for my use case because if things get wonky, I just rerun the script and it goes back to how I want. Keep in mind that in AutoHotKey,
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I just spend an hour and a half learning AutoHotKey and working up a script to do what I needed. It works well enough and is a slightly better solution for me than WindowTop, but I can now understand better why it is difficult to get a program like this to work correctly. It seems many programs fight against these window changes in different ways under various circumstances. I'm having slightly better luck using Firefox as my behind window than Chrome. I'm currently liking this solution slightly better than WindowTop for my use case because if things get wonky, I just rerun the script and it goes back to how I want. Keep in mind that in AutoHotKey,
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