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- From: twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: FindWindow
- Message-ID: <758@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:29:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan28.140241.29976@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1993Jan28.140241.29976@crd.ge.com>, deitsch@sol.crd.ge.com (Andy Deitsch) writes:
- |> I am trying to get the handle of an MDIChild window from a sibling
- |> MDIChild window. When I use FindWindow I get a NULL returned which
- |> seems to mean that the window was not found. I have tried using
- |> NULL for the caption only passing the class name and also the other
- |> way around (NULL for class name, passing in the caption).
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- From the reference manual:
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- The FindWindow function retrieves the handle of the window whose
- class name and window name match the specified strings. The
- function does not search child windows.
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- So, you ask, how does one find the handle of a sibling child window
- then? The answer is in the GetWindow() function.
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