Thread: RE: [GD-Windows] getmainwindow...

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You could use FindWindow(), but why aren't you just caching your app's
hWnd in a global somewhere?

Brian

If you app is active, you can use GetForegroundWindow().

Jeff Kiel

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hook [mailto:bri...@py...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:30 PM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] getmainwindow...

You could use FindWindow(), but why aren't you just caching your app's
hWnd in a global somewhere?

Brian

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If you have a child window handle, you can repeatedly call GetParent()
until it returns NULL.

Don't know if that's the "authorized" way, but it works for me.

--brian

-----Original Message-----
From: gabor farkas [mailto:xl...@po...]=20
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:19 PM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: [GD-Windows] getmainwindow...

hi,

is there in winapi something like getmainwindow()?.

i want to get somehow the window-handle of the main-window of the
application...

thanks,
gabor farkas

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Or call EnumWindows to iterate over all top-level windows and look for a
window whose process id matches GetCurrentProcessId().  Or an instance
handle that matches your current instance handle.  Or...we could just go
on all day like this, couldn't we!

--brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Sharon [mailto:bs...@mi...]=20
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:43 PM
To: gabor farkas; gam...@li...
Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] getmainwindow...

If you have a child window handle, you can repeatedly call GetParent()
until it returns NULL.

Don't know if that's the "authorized" way, but it works for me.

--brian

-----Original Message-----
From: gabor farkas [mailto:xl...@po...]=20
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:19 PM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: [GD-Windows] getmainwindow...

hi,

is there in winapi something like getmainwindow()?.

i want to get somehow the window-handle of the main-window of the
application...

thanks,
gabor farkas

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> for example maybe i'll port this code to a different platform....

Cross platform programming isn't about NOT using an API, it's about
isolating API specific features in appropriate places and abstracting
things to a higher level so that your core games.

Not keeping your app's HWND around for a Windows app is NOT the way to
go -- my code is very cross platform, but my Windows-centric portion
still knows what the HWND is.  You should probably try to structure
things similarly.

Brian

i just wanted to cut winapi appearance to minimum..

it doesn't matter for me if the code for a specific kind of viewport
knows about winapi,
and i can live with the fact that the main-window-code knows
about winapi too,

but i don't want to pass around winapi-related-structures between these
object

for example maybe i'll port this code to a different platform....

i know that maybe for a commercial game project it doesn't pay
off to try to be cross platform,
but this is a free-time/university project... :-)

just to be a bit modular....

and i don't like seeing winapi-code everywhere....
the same for opengl or directx....:-)

btw. findwindow...nice, but you need the window-class too... :-(

i think i'll just define a window-id datatype and cast the WindowHandle to
it and back.
type-safety rules...:-)

bye,
gabor farkas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hook" <bri...@py...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:30 PM
Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] getmainwindow...

> You could use FindWindow(), but why aren't you just caching your app's
> hWnd in a global somewhere?
>
> Brian
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