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nickos · Valued Newbie Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 26

How to find windows handling from it's process name from Tasklist command?

WidgetCoder · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

The problem with obtaining a window handle from a PID is that any process may have multiple windows associated with it. However there is an API function (GetWindowThreadProcessId) that will do the reverse (obtain a PID from a Hwnd) if you wanted to create a list of PIDs from winlist. I have used this function in the past although I'm not sure if it was in VDS or not I'll look for the code.

WidgetCoder · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

I found an example (attached), hope this helps...

nickos · Valued Newbie Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 26

Thanks for the help Widget.

I have a lot of running programs with same title with different exe's.
By comparing process from winproc list with title, got it's parent process.

Btw, what is PID use for in VDS ?
Rolling Eyes

WidgetCoder · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject:

The "PID" or Process Identifier (process handle) is a unique number that the operating system assigns to each running process. For example it could be used for VDS's KILLTASK command and is especially useful when there is more than one instance of the same program running. Each time a program is launched it's PID will change much like a Window Identifier or window handle (Hwnd). The OS manages these these list to ensure that no two PID's or Hwnd's are the same.

Happy coding...!