Go lang get current foreground window

active-window.go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "syscall"
    "unsafe"
    "golang.org/x/sys/windows"
)

var (
	mod 					= windows.NewLazyDLL("user32.dll")
	procGetWindowText   	= mod.NewProc("GetWindowTextW")
	procGetWindowTextLength = mod.NewProc("GetWindowTextLengthW")
)

type (
	HANDLE uintptr
	HWND HANDLE
)

func GetWindowTextLength(hwnd HWND) int {
	ret, _, _ := procGetWindowTextLength.Call(
		uintptr(hwnd))

	return int(ret)
}

func GetWindowText(hwnd HWND) string {
	textLen := GetWindowTextLength(hwnd) + 1

	buf := make([]uint16, textLen)
	procGetWindowText.Call(
		uintptr(hwnd),
		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&buf[0])),
		uintptr(textLen))

	return syscall.UTF16ToString(buf)
}

func getWindow(funcName string) uintptr {
    proc := mod.NewProc(funcName)
    hwnd, _, _ := proc.Call()
    return hwnd
}

func main() {
  for {
		if hwnd := getWindow("GetForegroundWindow") ; hwnd != 0 {
			text := GetWindowText(HWND(hwnd))
			fmt.Println("window :", text, "# hwnd:", hwnd)
		}
	}
}

Cool, thanks a lot! 👏

Do you have a mac version?