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By Zarko Gajic, About.com Guide to Delphi Programming since 1998

Get the Active (Focused) Control Outside of your Delphi application

Tuesday August 19, 2008
in Advanced Delphi :: When a user is working within your application, to grab the (handle of the) active control - the one with the input focus, you can simply use Delphi's "Screen.ActiveControl" property. Let's say you need to display something like a hint window below the currently active control - you would need to know the bounding rectangle (TRect) of this control that is not inside your application. Here's how using Delphi.

Read the full article to learn how to Get the Active (Focused) Control Outside of your Delphi application.

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