Re: [Dev-C++] Detecting running applications

[Jason H. <jas...@bt...>]

I admit that I have no real knowledge of doing that, but I think I have
found some information in the Win32 Reference that would be a good place to
start. If you haven't already downloaded it then I recomend you do - there's
a link at the Dev-C++ resource site. Look up the function Process32First().
That entry contains links to the other functions you need with it to obtain
information about the currently running processes.

To focus a particular window then you will want SetForegroundWindow() most
likely, although you will need to find out the handle of the window you want
to focus. I think possibly that 'th32ProcessID', which you get with
Process32First() and related functions, is a valid handle that can be used,
although you should check that. Remember that one program will probably have
more than one process associated with it.

I imagine that to find the tray icons you will need to go through the
Processes and find which are set to be in the tray, which I don't know how
you do in the first place.

I know that you still have a lot of work from there, but at least it's a
start. There may be an easier way of doing these things of course. Please
tell me if any of this helps. It looks like an interesting thing to try out.

Jason.


----- Original Message -----
From: "dx FX" <vin...@ed...>
To: "Dev-C++ mailing list" <dev...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 3:27 AM
Subject: [Dev-C++] Detecting running applications


> How do I get the names and handles of the programs/applications currently
running and how do I turn Focus to them? also, how do I detect, and get the
tray icons on the system tray?
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