Tougher challenge (was Re: Monitoring running Windows Applications)

[Gordon McMillan]

Five Fresh) Fish wrote:

>>How can one get Python to identify either the applications that are
>>currently running in Windows, in real-time (ie. as an application
>>monitor)... 
>> 
>>Or, better, how can one get Python to identify all the open windows, in
>>real-time? 

[and again] 
> Here's the tougher challenge: can this be done without using the Mark
> Hammond's Win32 extensions?  (I suspect the answer is no; I simply
> can't conceive of any way to query the OS without having hooks into the
> OS...) 

You could live on the edge and use calldll / dynwin from nightmare.com.

-- Gordon
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/