Hi,

I have a program that returns the current active window using
GetForegroundWindow.
If the window is a word doc for e.g., is there a way to get the
absolute path of the file.

Thanks

carolinevdp@hotmail.com wrote:
SendMessage(WM_GETTEXT, ...) will get you the text from the window's
title bar. That will include the file name but not the full path.

For Word and the other Office applications it is possible to use their
object model, via COM, to query the full path and file name.

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Scott McPhillips [MVP VC++]

Thank Scott,

I settled for getting information on the file, the
BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION
but when I do (GetFileInformationByHandle(foregroundWindow,&st1) ) it
returns 0 ,the error code is 6 ("The handle is invalid").
Any idea why?

Thanks

On Jun 28, 5:28 pm, "Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-
scottmcp> wrote:

carolinevdp@hotmail.com wrote:
GetFileInformationByHandle expects a handle to a file, not a handle to
a window.

There is no generic way to get what you want, since a given window
will not necessarily be backed by a file. If you want to know what
file an application has open, you'll need to ask it. For Office apps
this can be done with the Office COM object model. For other
applications the technique will differ.

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Scott Seligman [MSFT]
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