Re: A active program !

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From: Mike Labosh
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 19:34

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You use the FindWindow API function to get the window handle of the window
you want.  Then you call GetWindow in a loop until it returns 0, then you
know the other window has been closed:

lHwnd = FindWindow(...)

While GetWindow(...) <> 0
    DoEvents
Wend

In your case, if you wish to poll every x seconds, you can put the above
code in the timer event of a control and modify it so that it does something
else when the window disappears, or you could call the Sleep API function
instead of DoEvents.

--
Peace and happy computing,

Mike Labosh, MCP, MCT, MCSD
"Hit any user to continue."
"Bertman" <Bertman@home.nl> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have to make a program that checks if a program is active. For example:
My
> program starts Calc.exe, and my program have to check every 10sec if
> calc.exe is still active. And when you close Calc.exe then de VB program
> have to give a message.
>
> But I don't know how to check if calc.exe is active.
> I'm using VB 6.0 with SP5
>
> Bertman
>
>

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