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Hi. Is there a way to find out a window handle of running app when mouse cursor is over app's taskbar button or app's group's taskbar button? Thanks.
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See if this helps to answer your question.
It works, thanks.
Although it works, I can't find out HWND exactly. Tried to get different properties of IUIAutomationElement without success. The only way I found by using get_CurrentName which is only a part of window title. Any ideas?
Have you tried IUIAutomationElement::get_CachedNativeWindowHandle or IUIAutomationElement::get_CurrentNativeWindowHandle ?
All calls to get_Cached* fail with E_INVALIDARGUMENT. Call to get_CurrentNativeWindowHandle returns 0 for any IUIAutomationElement.
Is that consistent for any identified taskbar item, or just some?
Anyone else who's done this care to chime in?
Same behaivor for all taskbar items.
There is a way by injecting a DLL to hook Explorer internal interfaces like CTaskItem/ITaskItem, CTaskGroup/ITaskGroup, but it is complex
You can see the method in taskbar_inspector.c