How to create a window focus listener in windows using win32

Question

Is it possible to create a listener that listens every time a window losses focus in WindowsOS and then runs the callback function? I am using win32api, win32net, wmi, win32gui, win32process. I am using GetActiveWindow() to get info i need but i am doing this with a sleep timer and i was wondering maybe there is a listner to which i could attach a handler to handle every time the window focus is changed for any window in WindowsOS.

This is more detailed example of using `SetWinEventHook` in Python: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15849564/how-to-use-winapi-setwineventhook-in-python — Vasily Ryabov, Apr 07 '15 at 14:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 07 '15 at 08:40

SetWinEventHook(EVENT_OBJECT_FOCUS, EVENT_OBJECT_FOCUS, 0, HandleWinEvent, 0, 0, WINEVENT_OUTOFCONTEXT )

void CALLBACK HandleWinEvent(HWINEVENTHOOK /*hook*/, DWORD event, HWND hwnd, 
                             LONG /*idObject*/, LONG /*idChild*/, 
                             DWORD dwEventThread, DWORD dwmsEventTime)
{
    if (event == EVENT_OBJECT_FOCUS )
    {
        DbgPrint("%u:%x %p\n", dwmsEventTime, dwEventThread, hwnd);
    }
}

How to create a window focus listener in windows using win32

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