Is there a way to get the z-order of windows using the Python Windows Extensions? Or, alternatively, is there a way to do this using another module? The usual way to do this is with GetTopWindow and GetNextWindow, but neither of those functions appear in the win32gui module.
Currently I'm doing this, but it doesn't take into account the z-order of windows:
import win32gui
def get_windows():
def callback(hwnd, lst):
lst.append(hwnd)
lst = []
win32gui.EnumWindows(callback, lst)
return lst
Ideally I'd like something like this: (this doesn't work)
import win32gui
import win32con
def get_windows():
'''Returns windows in z-order (top first)'''
lst = []
top = win32gui.GetTopWindow()
if top is None: return lst
lst.append(top)
while True:
next = win32gui.GetNextWindow(lst[-1], win32con.GW_HWNDNEXT)
if next is None: break
lst.append(next)
return lst
However, the GetTopWindow and GetNextWindow functions are missing, so I can't.
UPDATE:
I guess I was a little too quick to ask for help. I figured it out using ctypes. Hopefully someone else finds this helpful.
import win32con
import ctypes
def get_windows():
'''Returns windows in z-order (top first)'''
user32 = ctypes.windll.user32
lst = []
top = user32.GetTopWindow(None)
if not top:
return lst
lst.append(top)
while True:
next = user32.GetWindow(lst[-1], win32con.GW_HWNDNEXT)
if not next:
break
lst.append(next)
return lst
