vba - Find the Window handle for a Chrome Browser

Question

I have found some code to bring the browser to the front, even if it was minimized. I don't however know how to get the hwnd for the browser.

I have had a look at the FindWindow API function, but you need the classname and windowname. I have found that the classname I require is "Chrome_WidgetWin_1" The windowname though would be constantly changing depending on what was open in the browser.

I think one of the 'children' of this window has a classname of "WrapperNativeWindowClass" I'm not sure if I can use this to find the original parent.

Can anyone advise on how to find the window handle of a chrome browser (using VBA)?

Answer 1

A typical Chrome/Chromium run session (multi-process, handling rendering/out of process iframes and offline-browser-applications and (standard) extensions.

NirSoft's excellent WinExplorer tool _{(among many many others)}

shows the following (probably similar to yours) class displays

try looking for both Chrome_WidgetWin_1 and Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND