How can I read the window title with JNI or JNA?

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timw07 picture timw07 · Jul 23, 2009 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

Looking to get back into the development space; primarily using Java to call some native win32 functions (I don't desire to build in .NET)....

Can someone point me to a place where I can read the title from a differnt running window using Java (JNI/JNA/SWIG). Assume you would know where in the memory space the application you are attempting to hook into is.

Answer

Anoop picture Anoop · Jul 30, 2009

In JNA:

public interface User32 extends StdCallLibrary {
    User32 INSTANCE = (User32) Native.loadLibrary("user32", User32.class);

    int GetWindowTextA(PointerType hWnd, byte[] lpString, int nMaxCount);
}

To use it:

byte[] windowText = new byte[512];

PointerType hwnd = ... // assign the window handle here.
User32.INSTANCE.GetWindowTextA(hwnd, windowText, 512);
System.out.println(Native.toString(windowText));

You'll probably want to use the proper structure mappings for HWND and also allow unicode support; you can find that information and more examples on how to do that at the JNA website.

The documentation for GetWindowText function is available here in MSDN.

Documentation for JNA is available at jna.dev.java.net

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