so I have a form with a ComboBox
that I populate with a list of open processes (In this case, I limit it to processes with titles that have 13 characters.) When I select an Item
in the ComboBox
I want to find that Form
by Title and BringToFront
However when I do so, it throws a System.NullReferenceException
.
Here's the code I use to populate the box.
using HWND = IntPtr;
public static class OpenWindowGetter
{
/// <summary>Returns a dictionary that contains the handle and title of all the open windows.</summary>
/// <returns>A dictionary that contains the handle and title of all the open windows.</returns>
public static IDictionary<HWND, string> GetOpenWindows()
{
HWND shellWindow = GetShellWindow();
Dictionary<HWND, string> windows = new Dictionary<HWND, string>();
EnumWindows(delegate (HWND hWnd, int lParam)
{
if (hWnd == shellWindow) return true;
if (!IsWindowVisible(hWnd)) return true;
int length = GetWindowTextLength(hWnd);
if (length == 0) return true;
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(length);
GetWindowText(hWnd, builder, length + 1);
windows[hWnd] = builder.ToString();
return true;
}, 0);
return windows;
}
private delegate bool EnumWindowsProc(HWND hWnd, int lParam);
[DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
private static extern bool EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc enumFunc, int lParam);
[DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
private static extern int GetWindowText(HWND hWnd, StringBuilder lpString, int nMaxCount);
[DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
private static extern int GetWindowTextLength(HWND hWnd);
[DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
private static extern bool IsWindowVisible(HWND hWnd);
[DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
private static extern IntPtr GetShellWindow();
}
public void populateIncidents()
{
foreach (KeyValuePair<IntPtr, string> window in OpenWindowGetter.GetOpenWindows())
{
IntPtr handle = window.Key;
string title = window.Value;
if (title.Length == 13)
{
chooseIncidentBox.Items.Add(title);
}
}
}
And here's the code I'm using to try to show the Form.
private void chooseIncidentBox_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
sSelectedIncident = chooseIncidentBox.Text;
Application.OpenForms[sSelectedIncident].BringToFront(); //Exception thrown here.
}
I'm not quite sure why it's throwing the exception, I know the Form exists as it wouldn't populate the ComboBox
otherwise. Any help would be greatly appreciated.