Workaround for Kontakt hanging on Replace Instrument pop-up

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Kontakt appears hung when the Replace Instrument dialog is displayed. This is because Kontakt is set as "always on top" so the dialog is hidden and there's no way to interact with it.

This small AutoHotky script allows you to press ctrl+shift+k to toggle the OnTop setting of the active window.

When Kontakt is first shown you can use the hotkey to make it not OnTop anymore so future dialog boxes will appear as normal.

If you forget and the dialog is present (but you can't see it) hitting the hotkey will show the dialog and you can then choose Yes, No, etc.

Here's the script, just download the free AutoHotkey to use it.

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#NoEnv                      ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
SendMode Input              ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

; This AutoHotkey script toggles the OnTop setting of the active window.
;
; It came about due to the Kontakt window being always on top so the dialog box to save changes
; is obscured and inaccessible.
;
; You can make the Kontakt window not OnTop (so you will see pop-up dialogs as normal) or if the
; dialog box is hidden you can bring it to the front (since at that moment it is the active window).
;
; The OnTop attribute gets set each time the Kontakt window is shown so for now you'll have to use the
; hotkey each time the window is opened.
;
; Hotkey is set to ctrl+shift+k
;
; This should save a lot of grief and help everyone's workflow.
;
; - InPhase

^+k::
WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, Toggle, A
return

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Thank you! Was having the same issue, and this did the trick.
Tracktion user since the beta demo was released by Tape Op magazine.

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