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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:43:33+00:00

So, I have a plugin to an MFC program. I’m using a mouse event

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So, I have a plugin to an MFC program. I’m using a mouse event hook (from SetWindowsHookEx) to capture clicks. The host application can have any number of (possibly overlapping) child windows open, but I only want to intercept clicks in a particular child window.

Is there a way to figure out in the hook proc which of the child windows would process the click? I guess it’s something like enumerate all child windows, looking at Z-order, but I’m very unfamiliar with the MFC/Win32 libraries, and I’m not able to find any good discussion about how to enumerate all children and calculate which is topmost.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe the WindowFromPoint API function fits the bill?

    Retrieves a handle to the window that contains the specified point.

    The documentation does not explicitly mention Z ordering, but I can assure you from first-hand experience that “contains” implicitly means that no other window is in front.

    There are several more of these, with slightly different behaviour: ChildWindowFromPoint, ChildWindowFromPointEx and RealChildWindowFromPoint.

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