In Java Swing how do you get a Win32 window handle (hwnd) reference to a window?

Question

In Java 1.4 you could use ((SunToolkit) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()).getNativeWindowHandleFromComponent() but that was removed.

It looks like you have to use JNI to do this now. Do you have the JNI code and sample Java code to do this?

I need this to call the Win32 GetWindowLong and SetWindowLong API calls, which can be done via the Jawin library.

I would like something very precise so I can pass a reference to the JDialog or JFrame and get the window handle.

Answer 1

This little JNI method accepts a window title and returns the corresponding window handle.

JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_JavaHowTo_getHwnd
     (JNIEnv *env, jclass obj, jstring title){
 HWND hwnd = NULL;
 const char *str = NULL;

 str = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, title, 0);
 hwnd = FindWindow(NULL,str);
 (*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars(env, title, str);
 return (jint) hwnd;
 }

bye.

Answer 2

The following code lets you pass a Component to get the window handle (HWND) for it. To make sure that a Component has a corresponding window handle call isLightWeight() on the Component and verify that it equals false. If it doesn't, try it's parent by calling Component.getParent().

Java code:

package win32;
public class Win32 {
    public static native int getWindowHandle(Component c);
}

Header file main.h:

/* DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - it is machine generated */
#include <jni.h>
/* Header for class win32_Win32 */

#ifndef _Included_win32_Win32
#define _Included_win32_Win32
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/*
 * Class:     win32_Win32
 * Method:    getWindowHandle
 * Signature: (Ljava/awt/Component;Ljava/lang/String;)I
 */
JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_win32_Win32_getWindowHandle
  (JNIEnv *, jclass, jobject);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif

The C source main.c:

#include<windows.h>
#include <jni.h>
#include <jawt.h>
#include <jawt_md.h>

HMODULE _hAWT = 0;

JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_win32_Win32_getWindowHandle
  (JNIEnv * env, jclass cls, jobject comp)
{
    HWND hWnd = 0;
    typedef jboolean (JNICALL *PJAWT_GETAWT)(JNIEnv*, JAWT*);
    JAWT awt;
    JAWT_DrawingSurface* ds;
    JAWT_DrawingSurfaceInfo* dsi;
    JAWT_Win32DrawingSurfaceInfo* dsi_win;
    jboolean result;
    jint lock;

    //Load AWT Library
    if(!_hAWT)
        //for Java 1.4
        _hAWT = LoadLibrary("jawt.dll");
    if(!_hAWT)
        //for Java 1.3
        _hAWT = LoadLibrary("awt.dll");
    if(_hAWT)
    {
        PJAWT_GETAWT JAWT_GetAWT = (PJAWT_GETAWT)GetProcAddress(_hAWT, "_JAWT_GetAWT@8");
        if(JAWT_GetAWT)
        {
            awt.version = JAWT_VERSION_1_4; // Init here with JAWT_VERSION_1_3 or JAWT_VERSION_1_4
            //Get AWT API Interface
            result = JAWT_GetAWT(env, &awt);
            if(result != JNI_FALSE)
            {
                ds = awt.GetDrawingSurface(env, comp);
                if(ds != NULL)
                {
                    lock = ds->Lock(ds);
                    if((lock & JAWT_LOCK_ERROR) == 0)
                    {
                        dsi = ds->GetDrawingSurfaceInfo(ds);
                        if(dsi)
                        {
                            dsi_win = (JAWT_Win32DrawingSurfaceInfo*)dsi->platformInfo;
                            if(dsi_win)
                            {
                                hWnd = dsi_win->hwnd;
                            }
          else {
           hWnd = (HWND) -1;
          }
                            ds->FreeDrawingSurfaceInfo(dsi);
                        }
         else {
          hWnd = (HWND) -2;
         }
                        ds->Unlock(ds);
                    }
        else {
         hWnd = (HWND) -3;
        }
                    awt.FreeDrawingSurface(ds);
                }
       else {
        hWnd = (HWND) -4;
       }
            }
      else {
       hWnd = (HWND) -5;
      }
        }
     else {
      hWnd = (HWND) -6;
     }
    }
    else {
     hWnd = (HWND) -7;
    }
    return (jint)hWnd;

}

Answer 3

Both of the above methods work just fine, but both return a HWND as a java int (32bits). this is fine for a 32 bit platform, but it will be unlikely that your application will be functional on a 64bit platform. I would change the return types to longs (64bits) as this will behave correctly on both 64 and 32bit systems (you'll only need to recompile the DLL)

Answer 4

You don't have write any C/JNI code. From Java:

import sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer;

public static long getHWnd(Frame f) {
   return f.getPeer() != null ? ((WComponentPeer) f.getPeer()).getHWnd() : 0;
}

Caveats:

• This uses a sun.* package. Obviously this is not public API. But it is unlikely to change (and I think less likely to break than the solutions above).
• This will compile and run on Windows only. You would need to turn this into reflection code for this to be portable.