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gettin window information. help.

Started by simbiant Apr 15, 2004 at 10:18 AM 3 replies 200+ views

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Apr 15, 2004 at 10:18 AM

is there any windows API command that returns the hWnd of whatever the user has focus to? and i mean universally, across all the windows on the screen. meaning, if i have my cursor in a textbox on some random window, it would return the textbox hwnd. or if a button on another window had focus set to it, it would tell you that hwnd. is there such an api command?

simbiant

Apr 15, 2004 at 10:21 AM

by the way i know of the function GetActiveWindow, but that only returns the parent window which has focus... i want the actual control within the window..

is it possible?

simbiant

Apr 15, 2004 at 2:13 PM

HELP.

Promit

Apr 15, 2004 at 4:44 PM

Maybe the GetFocus() function will do what you need, but I haven''t tried it.

Colin Jeanne

Apr 15, 2004 at 7:59 PM

GetFocus() only works for the current thread but the MSDN explains that you could use AttachThreadInput() on the forground thread to allow GetFocus() to work across threads.

Or, if you are using Win98 or Win NT SP3 or later, you could use GetGUIThreadInfo() with the first parameter as 0. The GUITHREADINFO structure has the HWNDs for windows in various GUI states.

Colin Jeanne | Invader''s Realm
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