ProcessGetState??

[vladedoty]

Is there a way to get a process's state

like wingetstate but instead processgetstate?

or another way i am overlooking?

thx in advance for the help

[AdmiralAlkex]

Processes don't have states like that. What is it you want to do?

[vladedoty]

ok so lets say i have a process of an exe like notepad.exe running in the background

i would like to get the handle of that process.

then find out whether its currently visible, minimized, active, etc

[AdmiralAlkex]

Those are attributes for a window, not a process. You want WinGetState().

[John]

Is there some reason you have a process name to start with but not a window name, HWND, etc.? You can get the HWND and title of all windows with WinList. Then maybe this will help:

Other than that more information is needed about what you are working with, like why is the process the starting point and not something else?

[John]

Here is a snippet I saved from somewhere, not sure where:

Func _GetHwndFromPID($PID)
    $hWnd = 0
    $stPID = DllStructCreate("int")
    Do
        $winlist2 = WinList()
        For $i = 1 To $winlist2[0][0]
            If $winlist2[$i][0] <> "" Then
                DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "GetWindowThreadProcessId", "hwnd", $winlist2[$i][1], "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($stPID))
                If DllStructGetData($stPID, 1) = $PID Then
                    $hWnd = $winlist2[$i][1]
                    ExitLoop
                EndIf
            EndIf
        Next
        Sleep(100)
    Until $hWnd <> 0
    Return $hWnd
EndFunc ;==>_GetHwndFromPID