IVsTextManager.GetActiveView Method

Returns the active or previously active view.

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function GetActiveView ( _
    fMustHaveFocus As Integer, _
    pBuffer As IVsTextBuffer, _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef ppView As IVsTextView _
) As Integer
int GetActiveView(
    int fMustHaveFocus,
    IVsTextBuffer pBuffer,
    out IVsTextView ppView
)
int GetActiveView(
    [InAttribute] int fMustHaveFocus, 
    [InAttribute] IVsTextBuffer^ pBuffer, 
    [OutAttribute] IVsTextView^% ppView
)
abstract GetActiveView : 
        fMustHaveFocus:int * 
        pBuffer:IVsTextBuffer * 
        ppView:IVsTextView byref -> int
function GetActiveView(
    fMustHaveFocus : int, 
    pBuffer : IVsTextBuffer, 
    ppView : IVsTextView
) : int

Parameters

  • fMustHaveFocus
    Type: System.Int32

    [in] If true, then the current UI active view is returned. If false, then the last active view is returned, regardless of whether this view is currently UI active.

  • pBuffer
    Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop.IVsTextBuffer

    [in] Pass nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) for pBuffer to get the previously active code view, regardless of the text buffer that it was associated with. If you pass in a valid pointer to a buffer, then you are returned the last active view for that particular buffer.

Return Value

Type: System.Int32
If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

COM Signature

From textmgr.idl:

HRESULT IVsTextManager::GetActiveView(
   [in] BOOL fMustHaveFocus,
   [in] IVsTextBuffer *pBuffer,
   [out] IVsTextView **ppView
);

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

IVsTextManager Interface

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop Namespace