Given an HDC, how can I determine what the name of the application is?

Question

I have an HDC object and I'd like to use it to get the name of the program that created it (such as Notepad or Firefox). Is there a way to do this?

If not, how can I do this?

Answer 1

1. WindowFromDC to get the window handle from the HDC
2. GetWindowThreadProcessId to get the process ID from the window handle
3. OpenProcess to obtain a process handle from the process ID
4. GetProcessImageFileName to obtain the program's path from the process handle

Or, once you have the window handle, GetWindowText to get the window title.