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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:38:48 -0400
From: Jim Scheef <ScheefJ AT netscape DOT net>
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To: Tennis Smith <tennis AT cisco DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin
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Tennis,

Back in the days when I used VB 4/5/6, we got the window titles via a 
Win32 call. Can you do that in tcl?

Jim

Tennis Smith wrote:

>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 
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On
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>Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
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>>Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 16:59
>>To: Tennis Smith
>>Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin
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>>On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Tennis Smith wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>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
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>>"ps --help" for the appropriate command-line arguments.  This won't
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>give
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>>you the title bar info, though.
>>  Igor
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