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After using GetWindowText to list the Child Name how do I gets its position and size

My goal is to get window text, size, position, handle of each child and the parent.

 I'm able to get the child using GetWindowText but when I use GetWindowThreadProcessId followed by GetProcessById it breaks down and gives me only the information for the active window


First I call
   Public Function EnumWindowsCallBack(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal lParam As Int32) As Int32

        'Get the windowtext length
        sSave = Space(GetWindowTextLength(hwnd) + 1)

        'get the window text
        GetWindowText(hwnd, sSave, Len(sSave))

        'remove the last Chr(0)
        sSave = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(sSave, Len(sSave) - 1)

And this works to list the windows and all the children

The next step is where my conversion goes wrong and only list the active window

        'get the child processID
        ProcessID = 0
        GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, ProcessID)
        If (ProcessID = 0) Then
            MessageBox.Show("Error finding target process ID")
            Exit Function
        End If

        Dim tempProc As Process = Process.GetProcessById(ProcessID)

        Dim processName As String = tempProc.ProcessName
        If (processName = "iexplore") Then

            If (sSave.Length <> 0) Then
               'Works
                Lst.Items.Add(sSave)
               'Doesn't Work
                Lst.Items.Add(ProcessID.ToString)
                Lst.Items.Add(tempProc.MainWindowHandle)
                Lst.Items.Add(tempProc.MainWindowTitle)
            End If
        End If

ProcessID.ToString is giving me the same id for children as the active id

mpProc.MainWindowTitle is not giving me the same name as GetWindowText
Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Lst = ListBox1      '--------> ADD THIS LINE
        EnumWindows(AddressOf EnumWindowsCallBack, 0)
 
    End Sub
 
 
End Class
 
 
Module Module1
    Private Declare Auto Function GetWindowThreadProcessId Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByRef ProcessID As Integer) As Integer
 
    Public Lst As ListBox
 
    Public Delegate Function EnumWindowsProc(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal lParam As Int32) As Int32
 
    Public Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal lpEnumFunc As EnumWindowsProc, ByVal lParam As Int32) As Int32
 
    Public Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32.dll" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr) As Int32
 
    Public Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32.dll" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal cch As Int32) As Int32
 
    'Callback function to enum windows
    Public Function EnumWindowsCallBack(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal lParam As Int32) As Int32
        Dim sSave As String
        Dim ProcessID As Long
 
        'Get the windowtext length
        sSave = Space(GetWindowTextLength(hwnd) + 1)
 
        'get the window text
        GetWindowText(hwnd, sSave, Len(sSave))
 
        'remove the last Chr(0)
        sSave = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(sSave, Len(sSave) - 1)
 
        'get the child processID
        ProcessID = 0
        GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, ProcessID)
        If (ProcessID = 0) Then
            MessageBox.Show("Error finding target process ID")
            Exit Function
        End If
 
        Dim tempProc As Process = Process.GetProcessById(ProcessID)
 
        Dim processName As String = tempProc.ProcessName
        If (processName = "iexplore") Then
 
            If (sSave.Length <> 0) Then
 
                Lst.Items.Add(sSave)
                Lst.Items.Add(ProcessID.ToString)
                Lst.Items.Add(tempProc.MainWindowHandle)
                Lst.Items.Add(tempProc.MainWindowTitle)
            End If
        End If
        If sSave.Trim <> "" Then
            Debug.WriteLine(sSave)
        End If
 
        Return 1 'continue enumeration        
    End Function
 
End Module

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My goal is to get window text, size, position, handle of each child and the parent.
Why not just use something like:
 
 

 For Each f As Form In Me.OwnedForms
            Debug.Print(f.Text & vbTab & f.Location.ToString & vbTab & vbTab & f.Size.ToString & vbTab & f.Handle.ToString)
        Next
 
 
 
 
...

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I think I left out size, but anyway....
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I was doing a little more research and that looks to be it exactly.  THanks again for your time.
He's working with EXTERNAL windows ladarling...  =)
Ahhh, sorry. Attention to detail.. for me that means 'check out the exception call stack" lol.
:-)