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Article #3248Re: Is checking a window's dwStyle-value ' WS_VISIBLE' not sufficent to find out, if a window is currently visible on the screen...
From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:29
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:29
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<MR> wrote in message news:5m4ed2tqvtmb1eh9nk6n4s4i4rfju6cjb7@4ax.com... > My app is called MyApp and it just runs through all the windows and > if it gets to the application window 'Myapp' (with exactly this name) Then you are running up on the TApplication window for your project. > it checks for this window to be visible or not. Strangely windows says > it is visible, even if it is hidden (as you said) . So the assertion fails. Again, the TApplication window is actually visible. That is why Windows reports it has visible. It is just really small, but still present nentheless. > How can I find out for any HWND-window value, if this window is > really visible (i.e. not hidden) or not. The example shows that checking for > IsWindowVisible() is obviously not sufficent. You already know the answer to that. > If it would concern only the main-window of my current application > the hack (with the 'bad' goto) would be sufficent, but there might run > other applications with such a hidden window. All the more reason to look at the window class names instead of the caption titles when possible. Gambit
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