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Question

How to get the handle HWND of the dialog which user open when clicking on a button.
I'm using Spy++ to find the window class and tittle, but it says that no such window is found. And how then to get the handle of that dialog in C++ using Win API ?
I hope that I will be able to do that using simple functions as FindWindow, GetParent, any WIN APi function. I do not like to inject something or load DLL. Thanks
UPDATE:
the folder browser dialog is opened by other program. I want to get it's handle from different program , my program. Thanks.
The closest to want i need is for now the function WindowFromPoint

Answer 1

Accessibility will let you capture window creation events from other processes without DLL injection. You can modify the example to accommodate for the browsing window specifically. Here's an example I made previously to test that is based on the one from the article. Modify it however you wish:
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
void CALLBACK proc(HWINEVENTHOOK hook, DWORD event, HWND hwnd, LONG obj, LONG child, DWORD thr, DWORD time) {
if (hwnd && obj == OBJID_WINDOW && child == CHILDID_SELF) {
switch (event) {
case EVENT_OBJECT_CREATE: {
std::cout << "Window created!\n";
break;
}
case EVENT_OBJECT_DESTROY: {
std::cout << "Window destroyed!\n";
break;
}
}
}
}
int main() {
HWINEVENTHOOK hook = SetWinEventHook(EVENT_OBJECT_CREATE, EVENT_OBJECT_DESTROY, nullptr, proc, 0, 0, WINEVENT_OUTOFCONTEXT | WINEVENT_SKIPOWNPROCESS);
MSG msg;
while (GetMessage(&msg, nullptr, 0, 0)) {
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
if (hook) {
UnhookWinEvent(hook);
}
}