Creating a sub HWND handle from an existant window

Question

I have a winform window in which I am drawing manually/programmatically, I would like to provide a HWND handle to a process I cannot modify that expressly awaits a win32 HWND (this process is then going to draw its own things in my window, using the HWND handle).

The important point of detail is that I want the HWND to point at a certain location in my window.

Is there a way to create a new artificial HWND which would point a particular zone of my window?

Serve Laurijssen · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-25T06:40:33.110

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You can only get a HWND to a window and every control like buttons checkboxes etc are also considered windows. So if there is no control located at the "zone" where you want to get a HWND to, that is not possible. But if there is a groupbox on that place for instance, it is possible.

You want to draw to a certain area. So why not just get a handle to the window and with the use of GetClientRect and GetWindowRect and draw to the x/y coordinates you want.

edited Oct 25 '18 at 06:40

answered Oct 25 '18 at 06:38

Serve Laurijssen

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So maybe, should I create a dummy control at the intended location. – KwentRell Oct 25 '18 at 06:39
Actually as I said, I cannot change the code that will use the handle. This code will take the handle and draw from location (0;0). So I have to give another offset-ed handle. – KwentRell Oct 25 '18 at 06:47
so you also have no control over the device handle? – Serve Laurijssen Oct 25 '18 at 08:05

Creating a sub HWND handle from an existant window

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