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Reputation: 64391

What's the difference between a Child window and a Descendent window?

I am reading from MSDN this:

A child window has only one parent window, but a parent can have any number of child windows. Each child window, in turn, can have child windows. In this chain of windows, each child window is called a descendant window of the original parent window. An application uses the IsChild function to discover whether a given window is a child window or a descendant window of a given parent window.

I am still confused about the difference between a Child window and a Descendent window.

I am using Mita.Foundation.dll to manipulate the IE and Desktop UI. It has the following 2 properties, I don't know what's the difference and I got no document for this DLL.

UIObject.Children
UIObject.Descendents

This concept is critical to me.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2963

Answers (1)

James McNellis
James McNellis

Reputation: 355237

Window A
    Window B
        Window C

B is both a child and a descendant of A.

C is not a child of A but it is a descendant of A.

Or, for an analogy, consider someone who is a grandparent. His grandchildren are descendants of him but they are not his children.

Upvotes: 6

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