Re: how to get main window handle from processID

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:12:11 -0500
Message-ID:
<rm01e21mbskkss5qbtc0va4fhe91h4egnm@4ax.com>
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:50:01 -0700, abhi <abhi@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

hi,

I have a processId for a application, i want to to findout the application
main window handle from it. how i can do that.
I have tried using EnumWindow and GetThreadProcessID() function but that is
not giving me expected results.

the window handle retuns is not the main window handle from the
GetThreadProcessID() function, but it is one of the window attached to
process and whose parent is a desktop windo


That could be a combobox dropdown window, because strangely enough, Windows
makes the desktop its parent. Same thing for tooltips. This allows these
windows to extend beyond their owners' borders, which ordinary child
windows cannot do. To ask the obvious, are you saying that an exhaustive
enumeration doesn't turn up any other window belonging to the process? If
so, determine the parentage of the window you want using Spy++ and get back
to us.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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