windowsdelphilistcaptions

How to get captions of actual windows currently running?


I have a question: I simply need to get captions of all windows in a list, by captions I mean the "Notepad", "Total Commander" - simply the text shown in the top-edge of a window.

So far I've gotten here

function EnumWindowProc(hHwnd: HWND; lParam : integer): boolean; stdcall;
var
  pPid : DWORD;
  title, ClassName : string;
begin
  if (hHwnd=NULL) then
  begin
    result := false;
  end
  else
  begin
    GetWindowThreadProcessId(hHwnd,pPid);
    SetLength(ClassName, 255);
    SetLength(ClassName,
              GetClassName(hHwnd,
                           PChar(className),
                           Length(className)));
    SetLength(title, 255);
    SetLength(title, GetWindowText(hHwnd, PChar(title), Length(title)));
    OptionsForm.ListBox1.Items.Add(title);
    OptionsForm.Memo1.Lines.Add
      ('Class Name = ' + className +
       '; Title = ' + title +
       '; HWND = ' + IntToStr(hHwnd) +
       '; Pid = ' + IntToStr(pPid));
    Result := true;
  end;
end;

But well, it returns all kinds of "windows", different focuses of forms etc. How can I get only the "main" ones?

Here is a sample of the results:

Class Name = Shell_TrayWnd; Title = ; HWND = 65898; Pid = 3776
Class Name = CiceroUIWndFrame; Title = CiceroUIWndFrame; HWND = 65976; Pid = 3776
Class Name = THelpInsightWindowImpl; Title = HelpInsightWindow; HWND = 1577734; Pid = 4852
Class Name = THelpInsightWindowImpl; Title = HelpInsightWindow; HWND = 591660; Pid = 4852
Class Name = TTokenWindow; Title = CodeParamWindow; HWND = 985436; Pid = 4852
Class Name = TaskSwitcherWnd; Title = Přepínání úloh; HWND = 66824; Pid = 3776
Class Name = tooltips_class32; Title = ; HWND = 198982; Pid = 1768
Class Name = tooltips_class32; Title = ; HWND = 66046; Pid = 3776
Class Name = _SearchEditBoxFakeWindow; Title = ; HWND = 66024; Pid = 3776
Class Name = tooltips_class32; Title = ; HWND = 66008; Pid = 3776
Class Name = tooltips_class32; Title = ; HWND = 131538; Pid = 3776
Class Name = Desktop User Picture; Title = Magicmaster; HWND = 65982; Pid = 3776
Class Name = DV2ControlHost; Title = Nabídka Start; HWND = 65978; Pid = 3776
Class Name = tooltips_class32; Title = ; HWND = 327840; Pid = 1768
Class Name = tooltips_class32; Title = ; HWND = 460808; Pid = 1768
Class Name = CTSCTooltip; Title = ; HWND = 266710; Pid = 2792
Class Name = Auto-Suggest Dropdown; Title = ; HWND = 69884; Pid = 4732
Class Name = Auto-Suggest Dropdown; Title = ; HWND = 69802; Pid = 4732
Class Name = TaskbarNotifierClass; Title = DAP Message Center; HWND = 68924; Pid = 4732
Class Name = tooltips_class32; Title = ; HWND = 134356; Pid = 1992
Class Name = ATKOSD; Title = ATKOSD; HWND = 65884; Pid = 3636

Thank you in advance!


Solution

  • The important information is contained in the MSDN topic describing the taskbar. Essentially you need to enumerate the top-level windows and pick out those that are visible, unowned and have the WS_EX_APPWINDOW window style.

    This program shows you how it is done:

    program EnumTaskbarWindows;
    
    {$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
    
    uses
      SysUtils, Windows;
    
    function EnumWindowsProc(hwnd: HWND; lParam: LPARAM): BOOL; stdcall;
    var
      s: string;
      len: Integer;
      IsVisible, IsOwned, IsAppWindow: Boolean;
    begin
      Result := True;//carry on enumerating
    
      IsVisible := IsWindowVisible(hwnd);
      if not IsVisible then
        exit;
    
      IsOwned := GetWindow(hwnd, GW_OWNER)<>0;
      if IsOwned then
        exit;
    
      IsAppWindow := GetWindowLongPtr(hwnd, GWL_STYLE) and WS_EX_APPWINDOW<>0;
      if not IsAppWindow then
        exit;
      
      len := GetWindowTextLength(hwnd);
      if len = 0 then
        exit;
      SetLength(s, len);
      GetWindowText(hwnd, PChar(s), len+1);
      Writeln(s);
    end;
    
    begin
      EnumWindows(@EnumWindowsProc, 0);
    end.