Looking for a C Coder

[jollyrancher82]

I'm looking for help with a C and Win32 problem to solve, if anyone has C and extensive Win32 experience, feel free to contact me.

[cooper]

Sorry, no Win32 knowledge here. :(

[metatron]

I would help but I have a flight out of the country tomorrow and will be busy for some time.

[dirty D]

Ill help you what do you need?

[jollyrancher82]

It doesn't matter now, I solved it :)

[dirty D]

What was it that you were trying to do?

[jollyrancher82]

#include <windows.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>



BOOL CALLBACK EnumChildProc(HWND m_hWndChild, LPARAM m_lParam);



char g_pszTitlebar[] = " - Pandora - Find New Music, Listen to Custom Internet Radio Stations";



int main()

{

    EnumChildWindows(GetDesktopWindow(), EnumChildProc, (LPARAM) GetDesktopWindow());



    return 0;

}



BOOL CALLBACK EnumChildProc(HWND m_hWndChild, LPARAM m_lParam)

{

    char m_pszTitlebarText[1024];



    GetWindowText(m_hWndChild, m_pszTitlebarText, sizeof(m_pszTitlebarText) - 1);



    if (strstr(m_pszTitlebarText, g_pszTitlebar) == NULL)

    {

        printf("False.n");

    }

    else

    {

        printf("%s", m_pszTitlebarText);

        exit(0);

    }

    

    return TRUE;

}

[Sparda]

If I didn't know any better, I would say thats C++ not C...

[jollyrancher82]

Good job you don't know any better :P

Thats C

[gonffen]

Hmm... that might be because C++ and C are very close... you have much to learn young skywalker....

[dirty D]

if youre trying to find that window why not just use FindWindow(NULL, "window title") thats a lot less code.

[Sparda]

I knew that C++ was based on C, but I never realy looked into how similare they are.

[jollyrancher82]

if youre trying to find that window why not just use FindWindow(NULL, "window title") thats a lot less code.

FindWindow requires you to have the full titlebar text, now Pandora titlebar isn't the same everytime you run it, so you have to do it this way.

[dirty D]

or you could use FindWindowEx searching by classname with the title text NULL and iterate through all of the browser windows if there are more than one, get the title and compare it to what youre looking for.

[jollyrancher82]

Which would end up with about the same amount of code.

[dirty D]

true true it would be slightly more efficient though becuse you dont have to check every window on the desktop, not that it would really make a difference.

[cooper]

OT, but I really feel the cleanest way to solve the problem is irieb's approach using Javascript to grab the titlebar text, and a local webserver. Then all you need to run is an Apache server (which a number of you probably already are) that supports PHP or Perl, and make a script that does what his java class is currently doing.

Back on topic, this program will repeatedly search for the requested window, find it and return the title text. Wouldn't it be better to have your main program read the output of this program which would be running in its own, separate thread? This program could then locate the window once, and after a preset interval check to see if the title has changed, and only return the title text when it has in fact changed?

Should be a little more efficient, and probably not add a lot of extra code to either program.

[jollyrancher82]

Oh the code was only a temp thing for me to test the finding window code. I only search for the window in the 3tunes program once.