Getting the state of a window

Question

I'm trying to get the state of a window on Windows. I have to check if the window of word is active or inactive. I don't find any answer to this problem in Google. Does anyone knows how to do this or if this is possible at all?

Window activeWindow = javax.swing.FocusManager.getCurrentManager().getActiveWindow();

The code above returns always NULL.

Thank you for your answers.

Regards Roman

similar: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8244172/how-to-trap-the-window-state — Christophe Roussy, May 14 '18 at 12:02
Flagged as a duplicate as the comment on the answer by artmmslv suggests that this has nothing to do with Swing but Windows applications in general which is nicely answered over there. — Ben, May 14 '18 at 12:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '18 at 12:06

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Try to use frame.hasFocus() or frame.isFocusOwner()

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JFrame.html

answered May 14 '18 at 12:06

artmmslv

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Isn't this just for Java application frames? I need to check if a window of an other programm is active like Word or PowerPoint. – roman tenger May 14 '18 at 12:11

Getting the state of a window

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