OI 10

I am trying to see if an external window is still running.

I have the handle of the window, used to do it with findwindow by title I think many moons ago.

Is there a way I can do it in OI 10 easily?

Thanks

Gerry

OI 10

I am trying to see if an external window is still running.

I have the handle of the window, used to do it with findwindow by title I think many moons ago.

Is there a way I can do it in OI 10 easily?

Thanks

Gerry

If you already have the handle to the external window, you should be able to call msWin_IsWindow(handle) and get a 1 response if it is still running.

Don Bakke

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

Hi Don,

Doesn't work for me, on win 11 or server

I get the handle by using "runwin" and it is correct as per task manager

However status always returns 0

Not sure…

Thanks

Gerry

Hi Don,

Doesn't work for me, on win 11 or server

I get the handle by using "runwin" and it is correct as per task manager

However status always returns 0

Not sure…

Thanks

Gerry

I don't think the process handle you get from RunWin is the same as the window handle that msWin_IsWindow uses. Carl can chime in and correct me if I'm wrong.

We wrote a utility that finds the window handle based on the caption of the running window. This relies upon msWin_GetWindow and msWin_GetWindowText. Once we get a valid window handle we can do other things such as using msWin_IsWindow to confirm it is still running.

Don Bakke

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

HI Gerry,

Don is correct - the information returned from the RUNWIN method does not relate to window handles, though it might be useful with FindWindow et al because you can check that the window you've found belongs to that process etc.

But in the first instance you would need to use another method to get an actual handle.

Regards

Carl Pates

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