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Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long

Platforms

• Windows 95: Supported.
• Windows 98: Supported.
• Windows NT: Requires Windows NT 3.1 or later.
• Windows 2000: Supported.
• Windows CE: Requires Windows CE 1.0 or later.

Description & Usage

EnumWindows enumerates and provides handles to all of the currently open top-level windows. This function will ignore child windows. (Note that the top-level windows include many windows not visible to the user.) Each time a window is located, the function passes that handle to an application-defined callback function. The function continues doing so until all windows have been enumerated, or until the process has been aborted.

Return Value

If an error occured, the function returns 0 (use GetLastError to get the error code). If successful, the function returns a non-zero value.

Visual Basic-Specific Issues

None.

Parameters

lpEnumFunc

A pointer to the application-defined callback function EnumWindowsProc.

lParam

An additional value to pass to the application-defined callback function.

Example:

' Display the title bar text of all top-level windows.  This ' task is given to the callback function, which will receive each handle individually. ' Note that if the window has no title bar text, it will not be displayed (for clarity's sake). ' *** Place this code in a module.  This is the callback function. *** ' This function displays the title bar text of the window identified by hwnd. Public Function EnumWindowsProc (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long   Dim slength As Long, buffer As String  ' title bar text length and buffer   Dim retval As Long  ' return value   Static winnum As Integer  ' counter keeps track of how many windows have been enumerated   winnum = winnum + 1  ' one more window enumerated....   slength = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd) + 1  ' get length of title bar text   If slength> 1  ' if return value refers to non-empty string     buffer = Space(slength)  ' make room in the buffer     retval = GetWindowText(hwnd, buffer, slength)  ' get title bar text     Debug.Print "Window #"; winnum; " : ";  ' display number of enumerated window     Debug.Print Left(buffer, slength - 1)  ' display title bar text of enumerated window   End If   EnumWindowsProc = 1  ' return value of 1 means continue enumeration End Function ' *** Place this code wherever you want to enumerate the windows. *** Dim retval As Long  ' return value ' Use the above callback function to list all of the enumerated windows.  Note that lParam is ' set to 0 because we don't need to pass any additional information to the function. retval = EnumWindows(AddressOf EnumWindowsProc, 0)

See Also

EnumChildWindows, EnumThreadWindows

Category

Windows

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Last Modified: January 16, 2000
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