UiaHostProviderFromHwnd function (uiautomationcoreapi.h)

Gets the host provider for a window.

Syntax

HRESULT UiaHostProviderFromHwnd(
  [in]  HWND                      hwnd,
  [out] IRawElementProviderSimple **ppProvider
);

Parameters

[in] hwnd

Type: HWND

The window containing the element served by the provider.

[out] ppProvider

Type: IRawElementProviderSimple**

The host provider for the window.

Return value

Type: HRESULT

If this function succeeds, it returns S_OK. Otherwise, it returns an HRESULT error code.

Remarks

The object retrieved by this function is useful only for responding to calls to the IRawElementProviderSimple::get_HostRawElementProvider method. You cannot use the object to raise events, provide properties, and so on. If you need to raise events or provide properties, you must create a provider object that fully implements the IRawElementProviderSimple interface.

Examples

The following example returns the host provider for the window that hosts the control served by this provider.

HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE Provider::get_HostRawElementProvider(IRawElementProviderSimple** pRetVal)
{
    return UiaHostProviderFromHwnd(controlHWnd, pRetVal); 
} 

Requirements

See also

Functions for Providers