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Re: How to determine active edit control in Windows API

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:56
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"Renald Yazmir" <renald@partmaker.com> wrote in message
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> I am using Windows API. I have 2 edit controls in the dialog box.

Is it a dialog that you created yourself, or is it a dialog in another
thread/process?

> I tried GetFocus() unsuccessfully

GetFocus() only works if the calling thread is the same thread that is
running the dialog, or if the calling thread has attached itself to the
dialog's thread via AttachThreadInput().

Have you tried GetActiveWindow() yet?


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