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Win32GUI is a C++ generic library for Win32 GUI programming.

It features real GUI RAII (Resources Acquisition Is Initialization), event handling, easy manipulation of standard controls, thread-safety and simple menu handling.

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How to detect Windows 10 light/dark mode in Win32 application?

A bit of context: Sciter (pure win32 application) is already capable to render UWP alike UIs: in dark mode: in light mode: Windows 10.1803 introduces Dark/Light switch in Settings applet as seen here for example. Question: how do I determine…
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How do I find position of a Win32 control/window relative to its parent window?

Given handle of a Win32 window, I need to find position of it relative to its parent window. I know several functions (e.g.; GetWindowRect() and GetClientRect()), but none of them explicitly return the desired coordinates. How do I do this?
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Opening a window that has no title bar with Win32

I'm developing a C++ application for Windows. I'm using the Win32 API. How can I open a window without a title bar (without controls, icon and title) and that can not be resized. The piece of code that I am using for the application to create a…
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How to get a list of the name of every open window?

How do I get a list of the name/text of all opened windows? I tried pywinauto: pywinauto.findwindows.find_windows(title_re="*") but using * as a regex raises an error I tried win32gui: It…
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Screenshot of inactive window PrintWindow + win32gui

After hours of googling I managed to "write" this: import win32gui from ctypes import windll hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, 'Steam') hdc = win32gui.GetDC(hwnd) hdcMem = win32gui.CreateCompatibleDC(hdc) hbitmap =…
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Add image in window tray menu

I am writing simple tray for windows using python. I succeeded in creating a tray icon, menu, sub menu. I stucked at adding image for particular tray item. here is code I used. (Link) Even this code did not work. Windows documentation is not…
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Capture the "Save your changes" dialog when using win32gui and closing an embedded application within a QApplication?

I am embedding an application within a tab in a pyqt QApplication. When I close the tab this application is embedded in how do I allow it to display the "Save your changes" dialog? I use this on…
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Python win32gui SetAsForegroundWindow function not working properly

I am trying to write a program that finds a window by searching for its title. Once it has found the window, it will attempt to bring it to front. I am using win32gui API to achieve this. I am able to get it to work for the most part, but for some…
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Installing win32gui python module

I am trying to get the name of the window currently in focus by running this code... import win32gui name = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow() However, I keep getting Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Program_1\test.py", line 1, in…
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How to use the win32gui module with Python?

Im my Python file, I have imported the win32gui module like this: import win32gui I have also downloaded win32gui but don't know how to make my script run. How can I run my Python script which imports win32gui? When I run it, I get: ImportError: No…
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win32gui.SetActiveWindow() ERROR : The specified procedure could not be found

I get the active window like so: window = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow() which is an Int, say 1053634. And afterwards I try to set the foreground window back to the specified window: win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(window) And I get this error: …
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what is the difference between win32 application, windows form application and console application?

I want to know what is the difference between windows form application, win32application ana console, i know that both the windows form application and win32 application is gui tool, but i want to know when to use one over the other one, and could I…
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Prevent desktop sharing of a particular c# winforms or detect desktop sharing

While developing an examination software I have a requirement to prevent desktop sharing through applications like TeamViewer, AnyDesk, Ammyy Admin etc or at least detection of it. Our examination software is developed in C#, it's a winform renders…
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How to enable tab and arrow keys using python win32gui

I've created several buttons (windows) in a main window, but tab and arrow keys are not working. My research revealed that for C++, the use of IsDialogMessage in the message pump creates a bypass of TranslateMessage/DispatchMessage as follows to…
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win32gui get the current active application name

I am just learning python and I am relativity new to it. I created the following script that will get the current active windows title and print it to the window. import win32gui windowTile = ""; while ( True ) : newWindowTile =…
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