Getting Windows text via the API

[zML]

I have been trying to figure out how to get the full name of a window to show up in a msgbox for quite some time. I am not sure how to grab the name of a window via user32 and have it popup in a msgbox in my program.

I have been trying to use showwindow and getwindowtext in order to do this. I am having problems poiting to a window OUTSIDE of my VB program. I can return the name of "form1" just fine, but I want the window name of a program totally outside my VB program.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Zac

[zML]

I tried the following code, but the problem is Clarify is only the first 7 characters of the title of the window. The full title of the window is "Clarify - ClearSupport - [Clarify U.S.] - SRX011204605600." I'm wondering if there is a way to check only the first 7 characters of a window ? I only need to find the first instance of the window and return the last 15 characters of the Window's title..... Any suggestions ?


Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim hWnd As Long ' receives handle to the found window
Dim retval As Long ' generic return value

hWnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Clarify")
If hWnd = 0 Then
MsgBox "Clarify isn't running"
Else
retval = FlashWindow(hWnd, 1)
retval = FlashWindow(hWnd, 0)
End If

End Sub

[Hack]

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 
'Posted by Matthew Gates 10/30/2001

[zML]

Thanks, but I figured it out I appreciated the reply, though.