Get hWnd of the main Word, Excel, PowerPoint window?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

Is there a way to get the main hWnd other than enum all windows by
class, and then setting the caption of the Application object to see
if the given window of that class has the same caption?

I ask because sometimes the SetCaption call throws an exception and
then this approach does not work.

thanks - dave

david@[email protected]
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me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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[Dmitry Streblechenko]

I don't think any Office app except Outlook implements the IOleWindow
interface which can be used to call IOleWindow::GetWindow().

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[Scott McPhillips [MVP]]

Hi;

Is there a way to get the main hWnd other than enum all windows by
class, and then setting the caption of the Application object to see
if the given window of that class has the same caption?

I ask because sometimes the SetCaption call throws an exception and
then this approach does not work.

thanks - dave

Setting the caption should not be necessary, since you know (or can get) the
document name for the window of interest. What I do is enum all windows by
class, comparing the caption to the known document name.

 

[David Thielen]

We tried that but it hit two problems:

1) what if I have open c:\test\dave.docx and c:\data\dave.docx?

2) for some locales the caption is different - I think it was the
Hebrew version where it came back much different than what we see in
the US English version.

thanks - dave

Setting the caption should not be necessary, since you know (or can get) the
document name for the window of interest. What I do is enum all windows by
class, comparing the caption to the known document name.

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm