Question

I am developing a python application and I want to get the HWND of each open windows. I need the name of the windows and the HWND to filter the list to manage some specifics windows, moving and resizing them.

I have tried to do it myself looking information around but I did not get the correct piece of code. I tried with this code but I only get the title of each windows (that is great), but I need the HWND too.

import ctypes
import win32gui
EnumWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumWindows
EnumWindowsProc = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(ctypes.c_bool, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int))
GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
IsWindowVisible = ctypes.windll.user32.IsWindowVisible

titles = []
def foreach_window(hwnd, lParam):
    if IsWindowVisible(hwnd):
        length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
        buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
        GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
        titles.append((hwnd, buff.value))
    return True
EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc(foreach_window), 0)

for i in range(len(titles)):
    print(titles)[i]

win32gui.MoveWindow((titles)[5][0], 0, 0, 760, 500, True)

There is a error here:

win32gui.MoveWindow((titles)[5][0], 0, 0, 760, 500, True)
 TypeError: The object is not a PyHANDLE object

Answer 1

You mixed up ctypes and win32gui.
The hwnd you’ve got is obtained via ctypes and is a LP_c_long object. That’s why win32gui.MoveWindow didn’t accept it. You should pass it to

ctypes.windll.user32.MoveWindow(titles[5][0], 0, 0, 760, 500, True)

If you want to use win32gui.MoveWindow, you can use python function as callback directly.
For example,

import win32gui

def enumHandler(hwnd, lParam):
    if win32gui.IsWindowVisible(hwnd):
        if 'Stack Overflow' in win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd):
            win32gui.MoveWindow(hwnd, 0, 0, 760, 500, True)

win32gui.EnumWindows(enumHandler, None)