How to sort Windows by z-index?
You cannot get a Window's Z Order information from WPF so you must resort to Win32.
Something like this ought to do the trick:
var topToBottom = SortWindowsTopToBottom(Application.Current.Windows.OfType<Window>());
...
public IEnumerable<Window> SortWindowsTopToBottom(IEnumerable<Window> unsorted)
{
var byHandle = unsorted.ToDictionary(win =>
((HwndSource)PresentationSource.FromVisual(win)).Handle);
for(IntPtr hWnd = GetTopWindow(IntPtr.Zero); hWnd!=IntPtr.Zero; hWnd = GetWindow(hWnd, GW_HWNDNEXT)
if(byHandle.ContainsKey(hWnd))
yield return byHandle[hWnd];
}
const uint GW_HWNDNEXT = 2;
[DllImport("User32")] static extern IntPtr GetTopWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImport("User32")] static extern IntPtr GetWindow(IntPtr hWnd, uint wCmd);
The way this works is:
- It uses a dictionary to index the given windows by window handle, using the fact that in the Windows implementation of WPF, Window's PresentationSource is always HwndSource.
- It uses Win32 to scan all unparented windows top to bottom to find the proper order.