FindWindow with multiple possibilities

[Eeyore82]

I want to use the FindWindow API in conjunction with previnstance to find the handle of the previous instance of my app. However, the caption on my form is variable depending on what it is doing and there may be more than one window with the classname "ThunderRT6FormDC". So, my questions are:

Is there any way to get FindWindow to return an array with the hwnd's to all applicable windows so as i can find the correct one from there (i.e. by checking its icon or something)?

OR

Can I search for just part of a form's caption? This way i could keep part of the caption (for example: the first four letters) constant and use FindWindow to search for that?

Hope that makes some sense

Thanx

[Megatron]

Add to a Module

Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal cch As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
 
Public Function EnumWindowsProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
    Dim Length As Long
    Dim sName As String
    
    Length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd) + 1
    
    If Length > 1 Then
      sName = Space(Length)
      GetWindowText hwnd, sName, Length
      sName = Left(sName, Length - 1)
      'Use the Like operator to search with wildcards
      If sName Like "*My Window Title*" And hWnd <> Form1.hWnd Then
           MsgBox "The handle is: " & hwnd
      End If
    End If
    
    EnumWindowsProc = 1
End Function

Usage:

EnumWindows AddressOf EnumWindowsProc, 0

[Eeyore82]

Thanx Megatron, looks like just what i need