Get the caption of active window...
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I don't know what exactly are you trying to do. But for the code you've posted I see the following: GetActiveWindow() return a HWND handle, there are not members functions to access from it. So, after saving your handle like this:
HWND hwnd = GetActiveWindow();Then you could call GetWindowText like this:GetWindowText(hwnd, strCap, sizeof(strCap))Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )
Or he can combine them into one:
GetWindowText(GetActiveWindow(), strCap, sizeof(strcap));
That assumes that strcap is a definitive size. The last parameter may need to change if it happens to be a CString or strring or pointer to some buffer. Good luck.
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Rajkumar R wrote:
use CWnd::GetActiveWindow()
Only if he is using MFC. :)
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see this, ::GetActiveWindow()->GetWindowText(strCap); //ERROR It looks like calling a member function using a class instance, possibly CWnd * (from GetActiveWindow), and :: makes the Global scope rather CWnd.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Only if he is using MFC
I implicitly telling him to move to MFC. :)
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see this, ::GetActiveWindow()->GetWindowText(strCap); //ERROR It looks like calling a member function using a class instance, possibly CWnd * (from GetActiveWindow), and :: makes the Global scope rather CWnd.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Only if he is using MFC
I implicitly telling him to move to MFC. :)
Rajkumar R wrote:
I implicitly telling him to move to MFC.
:laugh:
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Or he can combine them into one:
GetWindowText(GetActiveWindow(), strCap, sizeof(strcap));
That assumes that strcap is a definitive size. The last parameter may need to change if it happens to be a CString or strring or pointer to some buffer. Good luck.
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Oh yeah, of course.
Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )
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Rajkumar R wrote:
use CWnd::GetActiveWindow()
Only if he is using MFC. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
yeap am using MFC, thank you all Friends... CWnd::GetActiveWindow()->GetWindowText(strCap); did the job
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see this, ::GetActiveWindow()->GetWindowText(strCap); //ERROR It looks like calling a member function using a class instance, possibly CWnd * (from GetActiveWindow), and :: makes the Global scope rather CWnd.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Only if he is using MFC
I implicitly telling him to move to MFC. :)
Rajkumar R wrote:
I implicitly telling him to move to MFC.
Why this bad suggestion? :-D
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Rajkumar R wrote:
use CWnd::GetActiveWindow()
Only if he is using MFC. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
Probably he is (there's namespace scope specification). :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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Rajkumar R wrote:
I implicitly telling him to move to MFC.
Why this bad suggestion? :-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarketo use CWnd::GetActiveWindow() :-D
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Probably he is (there's namespace scope specification). :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarkenamespace scope can be used in non-MFC C++. :)
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namespace scope can be used in non-MFC C++. :)
It is redundant: if you don't need it, don't use it. :-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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It is redundant: if you don't need it, don't use it. :-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarkeint CMyNonMFCFrameWorkNameSpace::GetWindowText(HWND hWnd, LPTSTR lpString, int nMaxCount ) { CMyNonMFCFrameWorkLog log("GetWindowText"); return ::GetWindowText(hWnd, lpString, nMaxCount); } There are useful example with other API's, though the above is not a so useful example, it is possible to have such situation that is not redundant. otherwise namespace concept is not needed. I can give example exactly that match OPs statement without MFC classes and other namespace. :)
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int CMyNonMFCFrameWorkNameSpace::GetWindowText(HWND hWnd, LPTSTR lpString, int nMaxCount ) { CMyNonMFCFrameWorkLog log("GetWindowText"); return ::GetWindowText(hWnd, lpString, nMaxCount); } There are useful example with other API's, though the above is not a so useful example, it is possible to have such situation that is not redundant. otherwise namespace concept is not needed. I can give example exactly that match OPs statement without MFC classes and other namespace. :)
Rajkumar R wrote:
the above is not a so useful example
:-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke