drumltd

Anybody know how I can get the focus from a console application?

I've tried geting the HWND and using SetFocus but that appears not to work.

Scorpions4ever

You want the console window that your app is running under to get the focus? If so, here's what you do (the first 5 instructions are per a Microsoft KB article from a long time ago):

1. Use GetConsoleTitle() to get the current title of the Console Window
2. Use SetConsoleTitle() to set the title of the current window to something unique.
3. Sleep(50) milliseconds for the title to update
4. Use FindWindow() to get the Window handle by the new title name
5. Restore the original title with SetConsoleTitle().
6. Bring the console window to the foreground with SetForegroundWindow() and pass the window handle for the console window to it.

drumltd

Thanks, I'd got all of that apart from I was using SetFocus instead of SetForeGroundWindow.

Quick Easy answer I like that thanks.