Display Window Title with GetFocus() and GetWindowText() (96540)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0
  • Microsoft FoxPro for Windows 2.5
  • Microsoft FoxPro for Windows 2.5a
This article was previously published under Q96540

SUMMARY

The sample code below displays the title of the window that has the focus. It demonstrates how to use the FOXTOOLS.FLL library commands to call the following Microsoft Windows application programming interface (API) functions: 
   GetFocus()
   GetWindowText()

MORE INFORMATION

The program first loads the FOXTOOLS.FLL library that is supplied with FoxPro for Windows and creates a variable. Next, it retrieves the handle to the window that has the focus, that is, the currently active window. It then calls the GetWindowText() function, passing the second parameter by reference by using the @ sign. This is the variable that will hold the title of the window. It then displays the window title. 
   set library to sys(2004)+"foxtools.fll" additive

   * create a string variable to hold the title
   * and initialize it with blank characters

   place = replicate(chr(32),80)

   * get the handle to the window

   gethwnd = RegFN("GetFocus","","I")
   hwnd = CallFN(gethwnd)

   * call the Windows function to get the title
   * using pass by reference for the variable place

   gettitle = RegFN("GetWindowText","I@CI","I")
   = CallFN(gettitle,hwnd,@place,80)

   * display the window title
   * the output ends with a null character

   ? "The window title is: " + alltrim(place)

   release library sys(2004)+"foxtools.fll"

REFERENCES

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit, "Programmer's Reference, Volume 2: Functions," pages 376 and 484

FOXTOOLS.WRI located in the C:\FOXPROW\GOODIES\FOXTOOLS subdirectory
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:12/1/2003
Keywords:kbcode KB96540
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