title of the window in focus

[Sp1Ral_FlAmE]

I am looking for a way to get the title of the window currently in focus. I should know how to do this but I've been coding forever and it's late.

I hope someone can help, thanks

[Nucleus]

To get the caption of a window:

sWindowText = String(255, Chr(0))
SendMessageByStr hWnd, WM_GETTEXT, 255, sWindowText
sWindowText = Left(sWindowText, InStr(1, sWindowText, Chr(0), vbTextCompare) - 1)]


To get window current window:
GetForegroundWindow()

I assume you don't need the declarations.

[Matthew Gates]

Try this:

Private Declare Function GetForegroundWindow _
Lib "user32" () As Long

Private Declare Function GetWindowTextLength _
Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal _
hwnd As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" _
Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal _
lpString As String, ByVal cch As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function GetParent Lib "user32" (ByVal _
hwnd As Long) As Long


Private Function GetActiveWindowTitle(ByVal ReturnParent As Boolean) As String
   Dim i As Long
   Dim j As Long

   i = GetForegroundWindow


   If ReturnParent Then
      Do While i <> 0
         j = i
         i = GetParent(i)
      Loop

      i = j
   End If

   GetActiveWindowTitle = GetWindowTitle(i)
End Function


Private Function GetWindowTitle(ByVal hwnd As Long) As String
   Dim l As Long
   Dim s As String

   l = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
   s = Space(l + 1)

   GetWindowText hwnd, s, l + 1

   GetWindowTitle = Left$(s, l)
End Function