MDIGETACTIVE

[Thad Wales]

Hello,

Does anyone know if the wm_mdigetactive message really returns the active
child window of an mdi app?

I have tried it for both MSWord and PowerBasic MDI's and keep getting zero(handle)
as the active child. Maybe the client is wrong but when I enum the children of the
MSWord client I do get the actual document sheets plus alot of other window controls.
I'm just trying to isolate the actual current sheet document of sheet of a MDI app.

According to the sendmessage docs it works if whether I'm the current thread or not.

Basically I'm looking for a consistent way to determine an MDI app and it's children(sheets)
that are open.

Thanks.

[Cecil Williams]

Thad,

Does anyone know if the wm_mdigetactive message really returns the active child window of an mdi app?

Yes, it works just fine. There are actually two ways to do this as follows:

FUNCTION MdiGetActive(BYVAL hClient AS LONG) AS LONG
  FUNCTION = SendMessage(hClient, %WM_MDIGETACTIVE, 0, 0)
END FUNCTION

Via the wrapper fn in mdi.inc file and the more traditional way

hMDIChild = SendMessage(hClient, %WM_MDIGETACTIVE, 0, 0)

Hope this helps some!!!

Cecil

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[This message has been edited by Cecil Williams (edited April 26, 2000).]