by Kailash Chandra Vaishnav (1 Submission)
Category: Custom Controls/Forms/Menus
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Sat 25th June 2011
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Get Active window caption and work on active window
API Declarations
Private Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal cch As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetParent Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetActiveWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetActiveWindow Lib "user32" () As Long
VBcoders
Public Function GetActiveWindowTitle(ByVal ReturnParent As Boolean) As String
Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
i = GetForegroundWindow
If ReturnParent Then
Do While i <> 0
j = i
i = GetParent(i)
Loop
i = j
End If
GetActiveWindowTitle = GetWindowTitle(i)
End Function
Public Function GetWindowTitle(ByVal hwnd As Long) As String
Dim l As Long
Dim s As String
l = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
s = Space(l + 1)
GetWindowText hwnd, s, l + 1
GetWindowTitle = Left$(s, l)
End Function
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Print GetActiveWindowTitle(GetActiveWindow)
If Trim(GetActiveWindowTitle(GetActiveWindow)) = "Yahoo" Then
X = SetActiveWindow(i)
SendKeys ("%{S}")
End If
If Trim(GetActiveWindowTitle(GetActiveWindow)) = "Save As" Then
X = SetActiveWindow(i)
Clipboard.SetText "D:\kc.txt"
SendKeys ("%{N}")
SendKeys ("^{V}")
SendKeys ("{TAB}")
SendKeys ("{TAB}")
Timer1.Interval = 0
End If
End Sub