// 6 april 2015 #include "uipriv_windows.h" intmax_t uiWindowsWindowTextWidth(HWND hwnd) { LRESULT len; WCHAR *text; HDC dc; HFONT prevfont; SIZE size; size.cx = 0; size.cy = 0; // first we need the window text len = SendMessageW(hwnd, WM_GETTEXTLENGTH, 0, 0); if (len == 0) // no text; nothing to do return 0; text = (WCHAR *) uiAlloc((len + 1) * sizeof (WCHAR), "WCHAR[]"); // note the comparison: the size includes the null terminator, but the return does not if (GetWindowText(hwnd, text, len + 1) != len) logLastError("error getting window text in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); // now we can do the calculations dc = GetDC(hwnd); if (dc == NULL) logLastError("error getting DC in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); prevfont = (HFONT) SelectObject(dc, hMessageFont); if (prevfont == NULL) logLastError("error loading control font into device context in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); if (GetTextExtentPoint32W(dc, text, len, &size) == 0) logLastError("error getting text extent point in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); if (SelectObject(dc, prevfont) != hMessageFont) logLastError("error restoring previous font into device context in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); if (ReleaseDC(hwnd, dc) == 0) logLastError("error releasing DC in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); uiFree(text); return size.cx; } // this is a helper function that takes the logic of determining window classes and puts it all in one place // there are a number of places where we need to know what window class an arbitrary handle has // theoretically we could use the class atom to avoid a _wcsicmp() // however, raymond chen advises against this - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/10/11/240744.aspx (and we're not in control of the Tab class, before you say anything) // usage: windowClassOf(hwnd, L"class 1", L"class 2", ..., NULL) int windowClassOf(HWND hwnd, ...) { // MSDN says 256 is the maximum length of a class name; add a few characters just to be safe (because it doesn't say whether this includes the terminating null character) #define maxClassName 260 WCHAR classname[maxClassName + 1]; va_list ap; WCHAR *curname; int i; if (GetClassNameW(hwnd, classname, maxClassName) == 0) logLastError("error getting name of window class in windowClassOf()"); va_start(ap, hwnd); i = 0; for (;;) { curname = va_arg(ap, WCHAR *); if (curname == NULL) break; if (_wcsicmp(classname, curname) == 0) { va_end(ap); return i; } i++; } // no match va_end(ap); return -1; }