How to get active window's handle or title

[leuce]

Hello everyone

I'm having a dumb moment and can't for the life of me remember or figure out how to get the currently active window's handle or title.

I'm trying to write a script that will take the focus away from the window that has the focus, and for that, I need to be able to detect the handle or title of the window that has the focus.  Can you please put me out of my mysery? :-)

Thanks

Samuel

[water]

$sTitle = WinGetTitle("[active]")

Edited November 7, 2013 by water

[water]

To get the handle:

$hActive = WinGetHandle("[active]")

But that was easy now

[leuce]

Thanks, but I get an "Error in expression" error message when I try this:

Sleep ("1000")
$sTitle = WinGetTitle(["active"])
MsgBox (0, "", $sTitle, 0)

 

It doesn't like the "[".

[water]

There was a "bug" in my post #2.

It has to be

$sTitle = WinGetTitle("[active]")

[leuce]

Thanks, water, that makes more sense to me as well.

A quick question, if you can: when I click the Desktop, the MsgBox tells me that the title of the Desktop is "Program Manager" -- is that accuate?

[water]

Yes, I think so.