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Active window name

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:03:50 GMT

Hi everybody!

whats the best way (in c#) to get the active window name? (for example the name of the drawing window, the name of the main app window, etc...)

if possible without using the windows api..

thank you

best regards

Frigo

Re: Active window name

Joe.Ye — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:47:02 GMT

Hi Frigo,

Are your talking about Revit? And want to get the Revit's active view's name and Revit main frame name?

The simplest way to get the active Revit view name is:

View class name + ": " + view name + " - " + ProjectName.

For example: Floor Plan: 2 - Mech - Project1

Floor Plan is the view class name.

Project1 is the project name.

The active view name can be easily get by : doc.ActiveView.Name property.

With regard to get the Revit's main app name, there is no straightforward Revit APi can be used. You need to resort to the windows API, I think.

Re: Active window name

Revitalizer — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:28:20 GMT

Hi all,

if talking about the main window, the title displayed consists also of product type and year, which can be got by Application.VersionName and Application.VersionNumber.

Window title may change to a shorter string if window is resized.

Also, in a zero-document state, title looks like "[Recent files]", but this depends on Revit's current language.

Cheers,

Revitalizer

Re: Active window name

Joe.Ye — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:13:19 GMT

Hi Revitalizer,

Good idea to compose the caption string. Normally this should work fine to get the correct string.

However there are situations the caption is different. For example, the Revit used by the ADN partners, there is a sub-string "Not for resale version" in the caption string, the other parts are the same. There maybe some other situations, for example , the Revit education version.

Cheers,

Re: Active window name

Revitalizer — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:58:09 GMT

Hi joe.ye,

yes, I know that there are special strings for special versions.

Also, these strings are localized (as the "[Recent files]" string is).

After all, I think there is no possibility to get the main window title string except using Windows API functions.

I do not see why not to do so, by the way.

Best regards,

Revitalizer

Re: Active window name

Revitalizer — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:35:19 GMT

Hi all, what about this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainWindowTitle

I haven't tested this, but maybe it may help you.

Cheers,

Revitalizer

Re: Active window name

Joe.Ye — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:21:49 GMT

Cool, I confirmed the result is correct.