Retrieving all open applications ...

Ajay Deshpande garlictrompet at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 14:52:08 EDT 2007


applications ... i need to retrieve all currently open applications ...

thx for your help ...

-Ajay

On 10/31/07, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
> En Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:20:10 -0300, Ajay Deshpande
> <garlictrompet at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > I need to retrieve all currently open applications using a python
> > program.
> > So my output should be a list of window handles. Is there a module which
> > I
> > can use?
>
> "applications" or "windows"? You can use the EnumWindows function, from
> the Windows API, to enumerate all  top level windows. See this article
> from the Microsoft Knowledge Base <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183009>
> (the example is in VB but I hope you get the idea)
>
> Install the pywin32 extensions from Mark Hammond
> http://pywin32.sourceforge.net and you'll have the EnumWindows function
> available.
>
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> Gabriel Genellina
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