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How would I get the currently focused window in Java? For example, if the user is in Google Chrome. I believe this requires native code, and I’ve never used native code, so please help out with that.
I only need this to work with Windows, so I think this might be possible with a VB script?
I am not familiar with vb, but you might be looking for:
GetForegroundWindow-that should give you the “window with which the user is currently working”
GetWindowText-to get the title
correct me if im wrong but i believe you could load “User32.dll” from VB to use this, a quick google search gave me some examples of it, they should help you.
( you will have to de the searches yourself, i cant post more than 2 links and those two seems to be the most important)
Edit: Since you tagged this as JNI you could write it C/C++ and use them from Java.
Since those functions are part of the windows API there might be already something ready to use with java.
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