[Closed] cant find command panel HWND in max 2018 SP3

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hi Denis who tried to reply few days ago
The case is done finally. People in the Corona Forum helped me and the cause was floating command panel, i never thought of making it floats will makes it doesnt belong to max HWND but desktop HWND.
thanks.

these are just words… if you have a solution please share

you can find my post about Command Panel in 2017+ handle on this forum … it’s off

if you know how to find it just share

Isn’t there also the issue that the floating command panel is identified by its text, which is different in various max localizations?

hi, sorry for late reply.
here is the codes

commandPanelHWND=
(    if cui.commandPanelOpen then
    (    local popUpDialogs= UIAccessor.GetPopupDialogs()
        local currentMax= (maxVersion())[1]/1000-2
        local WindowText= "Command Panel"    
        local cmdPanelName= if currentMax>=18 then "CommandPanelWindow" else WindowText 
        local CmdPanelIsFloat= 
        (    local isFloat= for i in PopUpDialogs where UIAccessor.GetWindowText i == WindowText do exit with true
            isFloat==true
        )
        local intHWND= if CmdPanelIsFloat then 0 else #max
        local CommandPanelHWND= windows.getChildHWND intHWND cmdPanelName
        if CommandPanelHWND== undefined then CommandPanelHWND= windows.getChildHWND intHWND WindowText --this weird line is needed because in max 18 "CommandPanelWindow" will change to "Command Panel" after we float and dock back the command panel.
        CommandPanelHWND[1]
    )    
)

any suggestion to make it better?
edit: denis i cant find related the thread you mean about Command Panel in 2017+ …

windows.getChildHWND 0 cmdPanelName

This is wrong, don’t do this, if there is more than one max instance open, it will always give you the handle to the first one. You have pop-up dialogs for the current max instance – instead of just checking their captions, return the hwnd if match is found. Also, IIRC for different language versions, you will have to check for different captions.

hi all, here it is the revised code

(    if cui.commandPanelOpen then
    (   local popUpDialogs= UIAccessor.GetPopupDialogs()
        local currentMax= (maxVersion())[1]/1000-2
        local WindowText= "Command Panel"    
        local cmdPanelName= if currentMax>=18 then "CommandPanelWindow" else WindowText    
        local floatingCmdPanel
        (    for i in PopUpDialogs where 
            (    UIAccessor.GetWindowText i == WindowText 
            )    while FloatingCmdPanel==undefined do 
            (    floatingCmdPanel= i
            )
        )
        local CommandPanelHWND=
        (    if floatingCmdPanel != undefined then 
            (    floatingCmdPanel
            )    else 
            (    local theHWND= windows.getChildHWND #max cmdPanelName 
                theHWND[1]
            )
        )
        if CommandPanelHWND== undefined then CommandPanelHWND= windows.getChildHWND intHWND WindowText --this weird line is needed because in max 18 "CommandPanelWindow" will change to "Command Panel" when we float and dock back the command panel.
        CommandPanelHWND
    )    
)