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Example of using some basic winuser.h calls to get info and resize a window in Python using ctypes
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import os | |
import time | |
import ctypes | |
from ctypes import wintypes | |
def get_window_title(h_wnd): | |
max_length = 255 | |
title = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(max_length) | |
ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW(h_wnd, title, max_length) | |
return title.value | |
def get_window_pid(h_wnd): | |
pid = wintypes.DWORD() | |
ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowThreadProcessId(h_wnd, ctypes.byref(pid)) | |
return pid.value | |
def get_foreground_window(): | |
return ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow() | |
def get_window_pos(h_wnd): | |
lp_rect = wintypes.RECT() | |
ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowRect(h_wnd, ctypes.byref(lp_rect)) | |
return lp_rect.left, lp_rect.top, lp_rect.right - lp_rect.left, lp_rect.bottom - lp_rect.top | |
def set_window_pos(h_wnd, x, y, w, h): | |
SWP_NOZORDER = 0x0004 | |
ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowPos(h_wnd, 0, x, y, w, h, SWP_NOZORDER) | |
last_output_len = 0 | |
while True: | |
h_wnd = get_foreground_window() | |
title = get_window_title(h_wnd) | |
pid = get_window_pid(h_wnd) | |
itself = pid == os.getpid() or pid == os.getppid() | |
output = f"{h_wnd = }, {pid = }, {title = }{' (itself)' if itself else ''}" | |
print(output + " "*(last_output_len - len(output)) if len(output) < last_output_len else output, end='\r', flush=True) | |
last_output_len = len(output) | |
x, y, w, h = get_window_pos(h_wnd) | |
set_window_pos(h_wnd, x, y, w, h) | |
time.sleep(0.1) |
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