How do I find a window by partial title.. or if the title contains a certain word..
I was thinking GetWindowText but that requires that I have the handle already..
I was going to enum windows I think that I can search for a window title containing the string.. if it finds the string, compare it to mine and if it is the same then get the handle.
Or is there a better way to find the window for sure?
By Process? By FileName? *gah* brain overload.
Jump to PostIf you only know part of the string then use enum windows, then in the callback function call GetWindowText.
If you only know part of the string then use enum windows, then in the callback function call GetWindowText.
Did this:
BOOL CALLBACK WorkerProc(HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam){
GetWindowText(hwnd, buffer, 50);
if(buffer, L"FireFox") {
// do something with hwnd here
::SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_F12,0);
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}Called it like so:
EnumWindows(WorkerProc, NULL);But it didnt compile :S
>> if(buffer, L"FireFox") {
It didn't compile because of the above line. How is buffer declared? Where is buffer declared? And that if statement is just constructed wrong.
You need something like this: if( strstr(buffer,"FireFox") != NULL) or if you are compiling for UNICODE then use _tcsstr (it is for Microsoft compilers) instead of strstr()
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