manipulating child processes under Windows

[Syver Enstad]

Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> wrote in message news:<lcy9duhksg.fsf at gaffa.mit.edu>...
> Syver Enstad <syver-en+usenet at online.no> writes:
> 
> > Hmm, my first reaction is to think in terms of window handles in
> > some way, there's a FindWindow function in win32 (and win32all) that
> > let's you search for a window by name, I'll have to check the msdn
> > library to find out how to get the owning process handle from a
> > window handle.
> 
> What if there were more than one process with the same name.  How
> would I tell which one is the right one?

The FindWindow function doesn't search for the ProcessName it uses the
window title, which is often unique. Hope that helps.