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 Win32Windows

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Return the Window handles (HWNDs) of all windows

Contributed by: Daniel Bigham

ResourceFunction["Win32Windows"][]

returns the Window handles (HWNDs) of all windows.

Details and Options

ResourceFunction["Win32Windows"] is only supported on Windows machines.

Examples

Basic Examples (2) 

Get all window handles:

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ResourceFunction["Win32Windows"][] // Short
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Check how many windows are minimized:

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<< NETLink` IsIconic = DefineDLLFunction["IsIconic", "user32.dll", "BOOL", {"HWND"}]; Counts[ Function[{hwnd}, hwndPointer = NETNew["System.IntPtr", hwnd]; res = IsIconic[hwndPointer]; ReleaseNETObject[hwndPointer]; Replace[res, {0 -> False, 1 -> True}] ] /@ ResourceFunction["Win32Windows"][] ]
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Possible Issues (1) 

Win32Windows is only supported on Windows operating systems:

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ResourceFunction["Win32Windows"][]
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$OperatingSystem
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Publisher

Daniel Bigham

Requirements

Wolfram Language 11.3 (March 2018) or above

Version History

  • 2.0.0 – 07 March 2019
  • 1.0.0 – 27 February 2019

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