GetActiveWindow function

Retrieves the window handle to the active window attached to the calling thread's message queue.

Syntax

HWND WINAPI GetActiveWindow(void);

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return value

Type: HWND

The return value is the handle to the active window attached to the calling thread's message queue. Otherwise, the return value is NULL.

Remarks

To get the handle to the foreground window, you can use GetForegroundWindow.

To get the window handle to the active window in the message queue for another thread, use GetGUIThreadInfo.

Requirements

See also

Reference

GetForegroundWindow

GetGUIThreadInfo

SetActiveWindow

Conceptual

Keyboard Input