Find Programs

[Kiron]

Hello, i need to use Windows API or any other tool to find out that a program have been executed on the computer.
I need to find that a program with X caption has been executed and get her window-handle back.

Thank you very much,
Kiron.

[Dinesh_MS]

Hi,
I could not understand you clearly frame your question in a more detailed manner as for know i recomend using the CreateToolhelp32Snapshot along with Process32First And Process32Next API's to get a list of all the programs running and then get what you want with a host of window APi's like enumthreadwindows .
i may not be right but if you be clear maybe i can help you.

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[seaweed]

It sounds like you know the window's caption, so it's easy to get the handle with the FindWindow API.

For this example, start a project and drop a command button on the form. Then paste the following into the form's code window.

Option Explicit

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32.dll" Alias _
    "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As Long, _
    ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    'Say you want to get the handle to Notepad and display
    'it to the user. Call the function like this:
    
    Dim lHandle As Long, _
        sWindowCaption As String
        
    sWindowCaption = "Untitled - Notepad"
    
    lHandle = FindWindow(CLng(0), sWindowCaption)
    
    If lHandle = 0 Then  'The window isn't running
        MsgBox "The window: """ & sWindowCaption & """ is not currently open."
    Else
        MsgBox "The handle to """ & sWindowCaption & """ is: " & lHandle
    End If
End Sub

Run the project without Notepad running and click the command button. Now, leave the project running and open a new Notepad document (Start->Programs->Accessories->Notepad). Click the command button again and you get the handle.

[Dinesh_MS]

Well Seeweed i think that would be perfect if we know the window caption well but we get a problem if we want to check for a part of the string i nwhich case findwindow won't work so the best thing according to me is to the EnumWindows API get handle and then find out to see if it a toplevel window or not by calling the GetParent Api depending upon the requirement and then use the GetWindowText Api to get the caption and search for a part of the string using the Instring function.