How to get currently active window on Win32?

[Mark Hammond]

David Brady wrote:

Wolfgang answered the first:

> Second question, it looks like PyCWnd supports all of
> the MFC functionality that I could want (including
> GetTopWindow, ahem) but I can't figure out how to get
> at a PyCWnd object.  How can I call these MFC
> functions... or do I have to create a Win32 PyCWnd
> dialog in order to call from it?


You can call win32ui.CreateWindowFromHandle() if you just have the 
handle.  Otherwise you must create it.


> Third, is it possible to call GetWindowPlacement and
> SetWindowPlacement from Python?  I'd like to write a
> script that manipulates the positions of my open
> windows.


the win32ui window objects have these functions.  See the docs.

> Fourth (and last, phew!), is there a way to find out a
> window's class?  FindWindow, for example, will look
> for a caption or a window class; it's more accurate to
> look for window classes (especially when you have six


Maybe FindWindowEx?  I haven't got MSDN handy, but work out how to do it 
from the MSDN/SDK documentation, and then do it in Python :)

Mark.