How to get ModuleBaseName using GetForegroundWindow function? - c++

Question

I can get handle from GetForegroundWindow function. And I want to get BaseName
of handle. So i used GetModelBaseName function. But I guess this function was not work correctly.
TCHAR TitleName[MAX_PATH] = TEXT("");
HANDLE hFirst = GetForegroundWindow();
GetModuleBaseName(hFirst, NULL, TitleName, MAX_PATH);
_tprintf(TEXT("%s \n"), TitleName);
Tell me, what is the problem?

Answer 1

You are doing it wrong, that's why it's returning false and GetLastError will return ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE (6).
HWND WINAPI GetForegroundWindow(void);
Will return the current foreground window and will return it's window handle of type HWND.
You can do this to retrieve the filename of your application:
TCHAR szName[MAX_PATH];
GetModuleBaseName(GetCurrentProcess(), GetModuleHandle(NULL), szName, MAX_PATH);
Besides, you can also use GetModuleFileName or GetMappedFileName to retrieve the full path of your application
Edit: He wants to do something else too. To retrieve the path of another process, you will have to open that process with a process id. For instance, if 9912 is the process id of Chrome then you can execute the following code to retrieve it's path
HANDLE process = ::OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, FALSE, 9912);
if (process)
{
char file_path[MAX_PATH];
if (::GetModuleFileNameEx(process, nullptr, file_path, MAX_PATH))
{
std::cout << file_path << std::endl;
}
else
{
std::cout << "Error retrieving path" << std::endl;
}
::CloseHandle(process);
}