[SOLVED] get win handle from pid using wmi?

[dragan]

I'm curious, is it possible to get window handle with pid using wmi? I already know the wingetproc and winapi functions to do so, I'm only curious if wmi is powerful enough to do so as well.

Edited December 6, 2012 by dragan

[Chance]

I'm not very familiar with AutoIt and the wmi thing, but one thing I do know and like to stress is the reliability of using windows services and other preinstalled applicatons, as in if lots of people are going to use it, sometimes it fails under certain conditions, just like InetRead() in the case that a user uninstalled IE, I've had headaches with that

If you'd like, take my advice and use the windows API to do these things like what you just said

It's not nessasary to use wmi for something you should be using windows oem dlls to do.

[Chance]

Also, if I'm right, WMI is intended for things like scripting languages that do not support things like calling dll functions the way autoit and other languages can, so I personally think it's better to stay away from it entirely unless developing an appliation that will do network things, like using UPnP to foward a port to your app to act as a server.

[water]

I second FlutterShy,

WMI isn't the best tool to do what you want. Search the forum for Pid and handle and you will some ready made solutions.

[dragan]

Thank you for your replies.

Little intro to my project:

I'm making a server for my PC (Autoit based) that will communicate with my Android device (I'm also making android client), and I would like to get a list of all processes and PIDs and win handles sent to my Android device, however, I discovered that listing these things using WinGetProcess and using GetWindowThreadProcessId from user32.dll will result in failure if I have one online game running in the background. So its not usable all the time. Game is protected by GameGuard - maybe that's the problem, however those functions work fine without this game running.

The idea is to click the listed process or PID in Android device (sent by autoit server) and to set that PID's window as the active one, but I can't do that if the functions above gives me failure, that's why I'm asking about WMI.

[FireFox]

Hi,

Seems like WMI does not handle the windows, so you can not get the process from a window.

However you can get the process list.

Br, FireFox.

[dragan]

Somehow I overlooked and WinApi_EnumProcessWindows func, it seems to work just fine. Thank you all.

[water]

Glad you could solve your problem