How to determine if the current window is the active window?

Asked 2009-02-04T10:50:19.673

How can I tell if my window is the current active window? My current guess is to do GetForegroundWindow and compare the HWND with that of my window. Is there a better method than that?

I'm using Win32 API / MFC.

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I assume that you mean the window which has the input focus when you say "active window"?

In that case, forget the GetForegroundWindow() API. That will return the topmost window - not always the window which has the input focus.

Use GetFocus() instead.

answered 2009-02-04T13:27:35.160

How to determine if the current window is the active window?

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