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Article #5733Re: Finding a window with exact name
From: Jeff
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:06
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:06
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Thanks. "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message news:42cc4f0c$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > "Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> wrote in message > news:42cc47bf$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > >> Does anyone know of a method for finding a window without >> knowing its exact caption? I've used FindWindow() before, but >> I'm trying to find a window that has a changing title. > > Then you cannot use FindWindow(), unless the window has a unique class > name, > in which case FindWindow() can search for that instead of the caption > text. > > Otherwise, you will have to enuerate the windows manually, looking at the > caption of each one and doing your own comparison yourself. Use > FindWindow(NULL, NULL) to get the first window on the desktop, then > GetNextWindow(GW_HWNDNEXT) in a loop to get each window after that. Or > use > EnumWindows(). Either way, you can then use the WM_GETTEXT message to > retreive the caption of each window, then search the text for whatever you > are looking for. > > > Gambit > >
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,cad48e5a1c8d424f X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <42cc47bf$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <42cc4f0c$1@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Finding a window with exact name Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:06:44 -0600 Lines: 32 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.68.195.162 Message-ID: <42cc55f2@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1120687602 198.68.195.162 (6 Jul 2005 15:06:42 -0700) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!gatel-ffm!gatel-ffm!194.25.134.126.MISMATCH!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail