Accessing Win32 class names

[Tom Harris]

Greetings

Anyone know how to get the Windows class name knowing the handle in Python?
For some reason win32gui does not appear to wrap the API call GetClassName()

TomH <tomh(AT)optiscan(DOT)com>

[Thomas Heller]

Tom Harris <To...@optiscan.com> writes:

> Greetings
>
> Anyone know how to get the Windows class name knowing the handle in Python?
> For some reason win32gui does not appear to wrap the API call GetClassName()

It's simple with ctypes:

Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> from ctypes import windll, c_string
>>> user32 = windll.user32
>>> hwnd = user32.GetDesktopWindow()
>>> buf = c_string("\000" * 32)
>>> user32.GetClassName(hwnd, buf, len(buf))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
....
ValueError: function 'GetClassName' not found
>>> user32.GetClassNameA(hwnd, buf, len(buf))
6
>>> print buf.value
#32769

See http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes.html

Thomas