Process Has The Active Foreground Window?
Jan 6, 2010
The user32.dll provides functions to get the process id from a process executable name, and I can also obtain the active or foreground window that the user is working.Can I determine what windows the targeted process has opened? Otherwise, can I find out what details about the process that opened the foreground/active window?
My code needs to run only when another specific process is running and the user is actively using that window, while that window is the top-most window on the desktop.
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Oct 3, 2011
Ok so i have this function at beginning:
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Apr 21, 2010
I'm using Visual Basic 2010 Express.I have a form that can be minimized.There's also a tray icon.I've coded it so that if you double-click on the tray icon, the form's FormWindowState becomes set to Normal; this restores the form to where was before it became minimized, but the form does not become the active window on my desktop.
How can I make the form become the active most foreground window? I've tried various functions that I can think of but no luck yet. Tried searching with various queries to try and find the right wording but no luck.I'm new to Visual Basic - only started a couple hours ago.Probably something simple but I can't seem to find the correct function or anything.I have the form/window open, and then I overlap said form with a window of another application. When I double-click my app's tray icon, I want my window to become the active window, bringing it to the front, but can't figure out how
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Sep 7, 2011
I have an application that gathers information from a user into a Win.Form and then uses the Process.Start() to start Notepad and then using Sendkeys write the Notepad document.Sometimes this works great and sometimes the Notepad window is not started as the foreground process and the document is not written.What is the best way to ensure that the window opened by Process.Start("Notepad.exe") is the active window for the duration of the Process?
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Aug 14, 2009
I want to take a snapshot of the foreground window without using print screen key. So far the only think i can do with the foreground window is get its title but If i can get the size and location then I can get cordinates on where to set capture with graphics.copyfromscreen.
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Aug 21, 2010
How can I get the handle of the window that is below (or behind, whatever you call it) the foreground window?
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Oct 15, 2009
I am trying to use appactivate to bring a window to the foreground however this is not working. When the program is already open on the desktop and there are other windows on top of it and I use AppActivate then it brings that window into the foreground. However if that window is minimized to the windows bar below, then the only thing appactivate does is have that program selected but it does not bring it into the foreground. I need to have any window forced to the foreground while retaining its original size.
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Nov 15, 2009
I'm trying to send keys (or more precisely, paste the clipboard, i.e., send a "ctrl+v") to the foreground application and I'm sort of stuck since I can only find ways to send a keystroke at once.
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Dec 28, 2010
Known the external window size, it Hwnd and the x/y coordinates of the button to press, I am trying this code, like seen on the web[code]\...
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May 19, 2010
How can i get the name of the active window? like Internet explorer.
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Mar 5, 2011
I need code, or some instructions how-to-do, app that can perform all, or just basic, assembly commands over some currently active process on PC if that is possible in VB.NET.
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Dec 14, 2011
I was using the code below but it says it cannot find process XXXX but if i press continue it doesnt work as expected:
Me.Visible = False
Dim ProcId As Integer
ProcId = Shell("c:windowssystem32cmd.exe", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)
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What im trying to do is execute cscript from the open command prompt and pass it a vbscript by typing into using sendkeys but it doesn't finish typing the keys. Can i use process.start also or does someone think that i have made an logic error
in code above? Its in the form load event.
Note: code cannot be put in a button because this is an program that will run hidden and i need this vbscript to run just as a test but eventually i want the program to act like a service but except its really a hidden process and not a service. Also, for clarity its for my kinect project. The reason for hidden program is because end user should not see the program running because the end user is a kid or teacher and they might close down the program hence making it useless.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - "Sherlock holmes" "speak softly and carry a big stick" - theodore roosevelt.
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May 1, 2011
im using VB 2008 is it possible to get active window name or id? for example i have active notepad window, now how i can get it's process name or process ?id(better is process id)
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Dec 28, 2011
I can get the caption of the current active window via this [code]....
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Oct 13, 2009
How to check if a window is active? My case is: I have a program which runs in maxmize mode, allways on top, with no option to close and then i run another program which will normally run behind my program, but i want to enter ok or something to that program when i press a button in my program.So i think first i will have to verify if that program is active then i need to send a key (enter) in order for it to continue running while my program is visible to user.
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Jul 22, 2009
Is there a way I can take a screenshot of a window that is not the active window? I want to give the user his current open windows and he select one of them as the target window for the SS, my target is to let him work on one window while my application will take ss of not active window.. what is the best way to accomplish that ?
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Jul 16, 2011
How do I move the active window. I want to be able to set its locations,size, and even close it if possible.I ant to move any active window not just my active window
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Apr 12, 2009
I'm creating an OLD-DB database query tool and in the process of programing the new connection dialogue box.
Creating a new OLE-DB connection requires you to create a .udl file and execute it. After execution a dialogue box will pop up letting you create a connection. The issue is that the default TAB that is selected isn't the one I need.[code]...
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May 4, 2010
I need to set the active window in vb.net
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Sep 8, 2009
i am making a windows application using visual studio 2008. there are many forms in it and at a time more than one form may be open in the application. i want that at such a time, only the currently active window is shown in the taskbar instead of the taskbar becoming full of different windows for the same application.
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Dec 17, 2011
I need to create a form where AlwaysOnTop = True when the browser is visible. This creates some sort over "overlay". The logic works like this:
The program checks which window is active.If the active windows is a certain process, my form will initialize the TopMost utility, and be the active window itself. When the certain process is not the active window anymore, my form will disappear.
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My program checks if a browser is the active window, if so: the form gets topmost and the program stops checking what the active window is. (because my topmost form is the active window now).Now the program needs to check what the window under my form is, the second active window. If it's not the browser anymore, the form needs to hide, and the program will check what the active window is again.
I already completed the function that checks what the first active window is, I'm stuck on getting the function that checks what the second active window is.
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Nov 6, 2009
I'm having troubles with terminating an application. When I close the main form everything disappears but the process remains active. I think I know the cause, a certain activeX component will not release properly. As soon as I create one, I can't close normally...
dim someActiveXcomponent = new X()
...
<formClosing>
someActiveXcomponent = nothing
GC.Collect()
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers ' here it hangs
Probably a bug in that component, but the problem is that I don't have much of a choice, I'll have to use that component for now.
Calling
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject( myObject )
will kill the reference and now the application closes properly.
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Jan 11, 2012
I am trying to create application that monitor application list, not process list, what i mean application list is application process that shown on taskbar (NOT System Tray),how I can retrieve all application list and add them into listbox?
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Mar 23, 2010
Want to send the text from my current vb application to the Active Window and that text should be displayed in the text area of the active window.
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Apr 20, 2011
I'm making a game that makes use of Control.MouseButtons and GetActiveWindow() like so:
Private Declare Auto Function GetActiveWindow Lib "user32.dll" () As IntPtr
Public Sub GetMouseState(ByRef x As Integer, ByRef y As Integer, ByRef lButton As Boolean)
Dim p As Point = Parent.PointToClient(Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position)
x = p.X
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Does GetActiveWindow() not return the correct value only when my game is running?
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Jan 23, 2011
I'm trying to be able to get the caption of the currently active window. I've figured out that I should be using GetForegroundWindow, but when I use it I'm just getting a long string of numbers, which I think is the handle. How do I go from that to the actual caption?
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Mar 6, 2009
Is there an easy way to find out what the active window is within the .NET framework?
I have seen a few methods via google using API calls, but I thought that was what .NET was supposed to eliminate, by giving the programmer a way to get access to everything within the framework?
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Mar 4, 2011
I was wondering if there's a method to set the form as the active window (not topmost obviously), if it's currently not the active window (meaning another window is currently the active one). By active I mean "selected".
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Dec 17, 2009
How can we get active window input language?
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Jul 21, 2010
Does any one know how can I get the active window's executable path ? Is there any specific API function for that ?
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