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Josh_147
Contributor
5 years ago

How to get the FullName of current focus/VisibleOnScreen window?

Hi all,   In VBScript, we used to hard-coded the parameter like this: Set sDlg = Sys.Process("notepad").Window("Notepad", "New Text Document.txt - Notepad", 1)   Instead of hard-coded it, can we...
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    AlexKaras
    5 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Something like this (untested pseudocode):

      arWindows = <process>.FindAllChildren("WndClass", "*", 1).toArray(); // top-level children

  var strFullName = '';
  if (arWindows.length > 0)
  {
    for (var i = 0; i < arWindows.length; i++)
      if (arWindows[i].Focused)
      {
        strFullName = arWindows[i].FullName;
        break;
      }
  }

     

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
5 years ago

Hi,

 

This is not possible out of the box. But you can search for all windows of the tested application up to certain depth and iterate through the obtained list and check the value of the .Focused property to determine the window that currently has input focus.

 

  • Josh_147's avatar
    Josh_147
    Contributor
    5 years ago

    Hi AlexKaras ,

     

    Thanks for the idea, it seems like possible to work on it. Is there any example to show how can we get the FullName of the window that currently has input focus?

    • AlexKaras's avatar
      AlexKaras
      Champion Level 3
      5 years ago

      Hi,

       

      Something like this (untested pseudocode):

        arWindows = <process>.FindAllChildren("WndClass", "*", 1).toArray(); // top-level children

  var strFullName = '';
  if (arWindows.length > 0)
  {
    for (var i = 0; i < arWindows.length; i++)
      if (arWindows[i].Focused)
      {
        strFullName = arWindows[i].FullName;
        break;
      }
  }