Backgound Monitor Searching for titlebar name

[dimava]

I am making a background monitoring program that will write something to a .dat file if someone tries to open the file, like for example MyProgram - notepad then my second (monitor) program will write something to a file, and next time someone runs my program a message will appear, so how do I get my monitor program to scan the Title bars of all open programs for the words "MyProgram", and if it says something else beside "MyProgram" it iwll write something to a file. So how do I scane the title bars?

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

You could try:

AppActivate "MyProgram"

If it generates an error then the window's not found.

You could use the EnumWindows API.

Put the following in a Module:

Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal cch As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long

Public Function EnumWindowsProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
    Dim Length As Long
    Dim Buffer As String
    Dim Temp As String
    Static iCount As Integer
    
    iCount = iCount + 1
    Length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd) + 1
    
    If Length > 1 Then
      Buffer = Space(Length)
      GetWindowText hwnd, Buffer, Length
      Temp = Left(Buffer, Length - 1)
      If Temp = "Tips" Then MsgBox ("Window Found")
    End If
    
    EnumWindowsProc = 1
End Function

Put a CommandButton on the Form with the following code in it.

EnumWindows AddressOf EnumWindowsProc, 0