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

Answer 1

This is the same as Jared MacD's answer but it uses reflection so that the code can compile and load on a non-Windows computer. Of course it will fail if you try to call it.

import java.awt.Frame;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class WindowHandleGetter {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WindowHandleGetter.class);
    private final Frame rootFrame;

    protected WindowHandleGetter(Frame rootFrame) {
        this.rootFrame = rootFrame;
    }

    protected long getWindowId() {

        try {
            Frame frame = rootFrame;

            // The reflection code below does the same as this
            // long handle = frame.getPeer() != null ? ((WComponentPeer) frame.getPeer()).getHWnd() : 0;

            Object wComponentPeer = invokeMethod(frame, "getPeer");

            Long hwnd = (Long) invokeMethod(wComponentPeer, "getHWnd");

            return hwnd;

        } catch (Exception ex) {
            log.error("Error getting window handle");
        }

        return 0;
    }

    protected Object invokeMethod(Object o, String methodName) throws IllegalAccessException, IllegalArgumentException, InvocationTargetException {

        Class c = o.getClass();
        for (Method m : c.getMethods()) {
            if (m.getName().equals(methodName)) {
                Object ret = m.invoke(o);
                return ret;
            }
        }
        throw new RuntimeException("Could not find method named '"+methodName+"' on class " + c);

    }


}