Re: How do I find and use the window handle of an external application?

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:42:26 +0200, "Vic Joseph"
<vic_ngreply@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's all right for you guys to laugh, but here I am practically a beginner
in modern programming and I'm still in trouble. (I did some programming in
Assembler about thirty years ago, but since then I have had a life.) Most of
the things I can find on the Web are simply too complicated for my 8-bit
brain. All I want to do is find the height and width of a particular window
and its client area, preferably in two or less lines of code. (More
laughter?)

The laughter is actually bitterness
- MS are trashing our code assets, and when we protest they release PR
stuff that suggests we are a bunch of whingeing plonkers

What you want is very easy in VB5 or VB6
- first you Find the Window - the FindWindow API is good for that
- then you check it is the right one
- then you use GetClientRect

I could run this up for you in a few minutes using VB Classic
- as could most people here
- it would be a bit more than two lines, but not that much code

However I've no idea how to do it in B# (the proper name for VFred)
- but I do know from the basic principles of Windows that you do not
need to SubClass/Hook anything to get what you want
- if nothing else, knowing that is a blind alley will help you.

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