[Help] WoWs Window Handle

[Mr.Zunz]

EDIT: Just realized this should belong to C# section, sorry mods

Everything seems to work fine with notepad, but for wow it doesnt...

I'm using this:

    [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr hwndParent, IntPtr hwndChildAfter, string lpszClass, string lpszWindow);

        [DllImport("User32.Dll", EntryPoint = "PostMessageA")]
        static extern bool PostMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint msg, uint wParam, int lParam);

        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        static extern byte VkKeyScan(char ch);

        IntPtr hWnd;
        private void GetWowWindowHandle()
        {
            Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("Wow");
            foreach (Process proc in procs)
            {
                if (proc.MainWindowTitle == "World of Warcraft")
                {
                    hWnd = FindWindowEx(proc.MainWindowHandle, IntPtr.Zero, null, null);
                }
            }
        }

The window handle just gives "0"...
It's pretty odd because,

Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("WoW");
foreach (Process proc in procs)
{
    button3.Text = proc.MainWindowTitle.ToString();
}

returns World of Warcraft...

Anyone that can point me out what i'm doing wrong?

[lanman92]

EDIT: On a second thought. Use FindWindow. Pass IntPtr.Zero for the first param...

[Quarters]

Replace the FindWindowEx and use FindWindow as lanman said, heres the code.

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);

I think this should work, I would check but I can't at the moment.

Then I think you could simply implement it like so....

hWnd = FindWindow(null, "World of Warcraft");

I'm only a beginner so..

[Mr.Zunz]

Thanks Quarters! That worked :'D +Rep

[Quarters]

No problems man, glad it helped. Thanks for the rep

[lanman92]

Seriously? You gave him the rep? Sigh. Oh well.

[Ugge]

if any keys except ctrl+c/v have to be pushed, you didnt help at all

[lanman92]

Btw, the reason it worked for notepad is because notepad has sub-"windows"(components).

[abuckau907]

Just curious FartBlast, asl? How long have you been programming? I saw your other app, the web launcher--> just curious, do you know much about programming (do u know what oop ==?), do you know why I used == and not = :P lol..sry, not trying to be rude...but if you don't even know how to program, it's not really possible to make a bot. For example, right now you're having trouble using API just to even find wow's window..i mean, anyone could have trouble with it..just asking. What are you going to do when you have a bunch of classes interacting and you don't know what oop is --> For example you're going to have to track characters, monsters, spells, mapPoints, etc.. For example I'm stuck atm trying to decide which classes should actually control which parts in the game(ie. --> by the time you're at this point people won't want to read all of your code and paste you back an answer, so unless you know the basics of programming you're going to get stuck basically at every new feature you try to add

with all of that said...want to team up? lol...i'm doing this in vb.net but it's basically the same as C# and it would be cool to actually have a group of friends on something like msn instead of on a forum. so..pm me if you want

ps. btw, i have little room to talk, because I'm only mid-level at programming and I get hung up a lot on specific oop stuff(Shared,Friend, etc), but I do know the basics and can solve ..most problems.

[Mr.Zunz]

Ok i dont know that much about coding, happy now..? I'm lacking explaination because I dont get that much at school, That's why i'm here, Asking. and since when it is forbidden to ask shit, just relax... It never hurts looking into something that is abit far off for yourself isnt it? I learn from mistakes. Not from your egosentric posts explaining i should go back to hello world. My 2 cents.

[dook123]

Good luck fartblast this is a fun project if you have continued with it.

-Duke

[xzidez]

Doublepost.. gawd.

[xzidez]

Hmm why do you want to use FindWindow instead of looping the processes?
FindWindow will also return on a .. say. folder named world of warcraft thats opened.
Also after you have retrieved the window handle you have to get the process id from that handle.

The second code you pasted is much cleaner. I use something similar myself. Since I want to be able to inject my bot into multiple wow instances and want to decide which myself.

IEnumerable<Process> processes = Process.GetProcesses().Where(c=>c.ProcessName.Equals("wow", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

Dont have my exact code here but its something similar to that