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Get current active windows title and process using JNA
import static enumeration.EnumerateWindows.Kernel32.*;
import static enumeration.EnumerateWindows.Psapi.*;
import static enumeration.EnumerateWindows.User32DLL.*;
import com.sun.jna.Native;
import com.sun.jna.Pointer;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.WinDef.HWND;
import com.sun.jna.ptr.PointerByReference;
public class EnumerateWindows {
private static final int MAX_TITLE_LENGTH = 1024;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
char[] buffer = new char[MAX_TITLE_LENGTH * 2];
GetWindowTextW(GetForegroundWindow(), buffer, MAX_TITLE_LENGTH);
System.out.println("Active window title: " + Native.toString(buffer));
PointerByReference pointer = new PointerByReference();
GetWindowThreadProcessId(GetForegroundWindow(), pointer);
Pointer process = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ, false, pointer.getValue());
GetModuleBaseNameW(process, null, buffer, MAX_TITLE_LENGTH);
System.out.println("Active window process: " + Native.toString(buffer));
}
static class Psapi {
static { Native.register("psapi"); }
public static native int GetModuleBaseNameW(Pointer hProcess, Pointer hmodule, char[] lpBaseName, int size);
}
static class Kernel32 {
static { Native.register("kernel32"); }
public static int PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION = 0x0400;
public static int PROCESS_VM_READ = 0x0010;
public static native int GetLastError();
public static native Pointer OpenProcess(int dwDesiredAccess, boolean bInheritHandle, Pointer pointer);
}
static class User32DLL {
static { Native.register("user32"); }
public static native int GetWindowThreadProcessId(HWND hWnd, PointerByReference pref);
public static native HWND GetForegroundWindow();
public static native int GetWindowTextW(HWND hWnd, char[] lpString, int nMaxCount);
}
}
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goias5 commented Apr 26, 2019

I had a problem, there is exceptions, erros, it show the active window but then crashes. How to show all opne windows, not only the main one?
Anyway it worked to show only 1 window, so it deserved a star.

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