c++ - How to determine if the current window is the active window?

Question

How can I tell if my window is the current active window? My current guess is to do GetForegroundWindow and compare the HWND with that of my window. Is there a better method than that?

I'm using Win32 API / MFC.

Answer 1

Yes, that's the only way that I'm aware of.

But you have to handle the fact that GFW can return NULL. Typically, this happens when another desktop (e.g. the screen saver desktop) is active. Note that use of a saver password can affect whether a different desktop is used (this is windows version-dependent and I can't remember the details of how different versions work).

Also this code won't work properly in debug mode under Visual Studio, because you will get VS's window handle.

Other than that everything's peachy :-)