Get the HANDLE of a window

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hello,everyone.
I have started a external application by calling the function ShellExecute,then I get the process handle of the application ,and after that how can I get the Window Handle of the application through the process handle of the application?
thanks.

Posted 21-Dec-11 2:08am

Dongyou Xiang

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LaxmikantYadav · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-21T02:17:00

Solution 1

Look Here : http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=273507[^]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242308[^]

Posted 21-Dec-11 2:17am

LaxmikantYadav

Updated 21-Dec-11 2:20am

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Dongyou Xiang 4-Feb-12 2:04am

thanks

Dongyou Xiang · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-21T17:29:00

Solution 2

I have solve this problem by calling the function FindWindow（） to get the Handle of the window with a precondition that it must be only one window exist.Because it will be wrong when there are several windows with the same caption.

Posted 21-Dec-11 17:29pm

Dongyou Xiang