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RE: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin


Yeah, I can figure out what processes are running from "ps", but not
what windows are up.  Basically, I'm trying to verify that a couple
applications are running and have windows of a particular name up and
running.

Thanks for the reply.

-Tennis 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 16:59
>To: Tennis Smith
>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin
>
>On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Tennis Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What I would like to do is very simple (I hope): Determine which Win
>> applications are running and, if possible, what the names are in the
>> title bars.
>>
>> How best can that be done? I'd prefer to use TCL.
>>
>> TIA,
>> -Tennis
>
>The Unix way ("ps") will work.  I'm sure you can invoke it from TCL via
>exec() (or, if you actually want to process the output, via open()).
See
>"ps --help" for the appropriate command-line arguments.  This won't
give
>you the title bar info, though.
>	Igor
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