From a couple of preliminary tests it seems that EnumWindows always returns windows in reverse instantiation order, i.e. most recently instantiated window first. Is that a valid observation? If so, is it true across all versions of Windows? And is this a reliable assumption, i.e. is that behaviour documented somewhere?
Context: I'm dealing with a situation where I am triggering a third-party application to open several non-modal windows and I need to send some window messages to those windows once they're open, yet I have no sure-fire way of identifying them as neither their window classes nor their captions will differ and I also do not know their expected coordinates. However, if I could rely on the above behaviour of EnumWindows I could simply use the first handle returned by EnumWindows whose class and caption match my expectation. That still leaves some hypothetical loop holes but I think it will be good enough. Alternative suggestions welcome nevertheless.