[DavidWalsh]

I am trying to recognise an application by reading its window heading. I am using VB6 but without much luck! I also wouldn't mind knowing its position on screen as well as its height and width, though these are not as important.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Mosaic1]

What application? Are you more interested in getting the Window Handle or just knowing if the app is running? For which OS? XP, 2k or 98? Or for all?

If you tell me what you are trying to accomplish, I will help you get there.

[Rollin_Again]

Try the WinSpector spy utility. Download it free here

http://www.windows-spy.com/


Rollin

[DavidWalsh]

I'm running XP. What I'm trying to achieve is to recognise whether a program is open on screen, not just whether it is running. The reason being is so that I can perform some graphics manipulation on the window. There are a couple of different versions of the program concerned hence the need to recognise the heading because the heading is different depending on the version running.

Thanks for the response by the way. Much appreciated.

[coderitr]

Try the EnumWindows( ) API.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...numwindows.asp

[Mosaic1]

That's the function. I highly recommend this site for API in VB
http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/apilist.php

You can find an easy to follow example of using EnumWindows there.

[DavidWalsh]

I tried that API routine and it just gave me a messagebox with a list of 7/8 digit numbers in it. Am I missing something as I want to actually read the title, ie. the title of this window is:"Tech Support Guy Forums - "........... This is what I want to read.

[coderitr]

That number is the handle to the window. You can then use the GetWindowText( ) function to get the title bar text of the window.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...windowtext.asp

[Fredledingue]

AutoItX do it for vbs.
Look for AutoIt website.

[DavidWalsh]

Thanks for all the help. I shall be looking into them and reporting back my findings.