Which window has the focus [modified]

[SujayG]

I have to return the path of the selected file , EITHER in the Desktop or in the Windows Explorer. I can get the path of the selected file both on the Windows Explorer and the desktop My problem is that I am unable to find which window has the current focus 1) The user has selected a file on the desktop 2) The user has selected a file in the Windows explorer. ( So this has the focus now ) How do I programatically find that out I am using the following code HWND hWndDesktop = GetDesktopHandle(); // Gets the handle of the SyslistView32 window DWORD dwThread = ::GetWindowThreadProcessId(hWndDesktop, NULL); GUITHREADINFO gtf ; gtf.cbSize = sizeof(GUITHREADINFO); BOOL b = GetGUIThreadInfo(dwThread, >f); if(hWndDesktop == gtf.hwndFocus) { // this window currently has the focus } But I am getting different handles for hWndDesktop and gtf.hwndFocus . Please let me know if I am missing something EDIT I am trying to get the Window handle across processes . Thanks Sujay

modified on Friday, December 4, 2009 12:40 AM

[_Superman_]

Use GetFocus to get the handle to the window that has the focus.

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[SujayG]

HI , GetFocus does return me the correct window handle also. I had tried with GetFoucs,GetActiveWindow, none of them are working

[Madhu Nair 0]

Superman, Does the GetTopWindow help in this regard ? Or, What about using File Change Notification[^] to get the changes user made in file system ? Not sure these are relevant for the OP.

modified on Friday, December 4, 2009 1:37 AM

[vasu_sri]

i have tried what u have done . that GetFocus function is retirning is NULL when iam calling in thread. so, that i tried one more function GetForegroundWindow(); this also returns HWND.

CWnd \*wnd=NULL;
HWND hWnd = NULL;
CString strwndName;

while (1)
{
	hWnd=::GetFocus();
	if(hWnd==NULL)
		hWnd=GetForegroundWindow();
	GetWindowText(hWnd,strwndName.GetBuffer(),20);
	//displaying in edit box.
	dlg->m\_ed1.SetWindowText(strwndName);
}

just try it.. it will be work...

Regards, Srinivas