How can I detect "has stopped working" window in windows 7 and 8?

[Guest]

Hello,

I want to detect this kind of window:

And this:

In widows 7 and 8.

And get its handle to read its content

 

How it can be done?

I think that I need to use _WinAPI_FindWindow but i don't know what parameters I need to write in this function.

I can't find it by title because there is no unique string in the title(only the name of the app)..

 

Thanks for helpers!

 

EDIT:

The overall goal is to constantly check if the process crashed with  "has stopped working" error.

one way I thought of is to check for this window.. But if there is a better way then I prefer the better way

Something I now think about it is to read every X seconds the windows event log and check there if the error occurred and reed the error content from there. I check now how I can do that

Edited February 2, 2015 by Guest

[alienclone]

you can search for windows by text instead of title..

Do
    sleep(90)
    until WinExists("","has stopped working")

[Guest]

you can search for windows by text instead of title..

Do
    sleep(90)
    until WinExists("","has stopped working")

 Thanks but it does not work for me. (I have Windows 7 64bit)

But I know what your idea. I thought about it.

I prefer to avoid from writing a function that checks all of the opened windows..  I'm not sure that this is the best method

 

EDIT:

I think this is the right direction for my purpose:

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_EventLog__Read.htm

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_EventLog__Notify.htm

I will continue research this ..

Thanks anyway

Edited February 2, 2015 by Guest

[alienclone]

another suggestion that isnt AutoIt related, i use a free program called Pulseway (formerly called PC Monitor) installed on my pc and i can tell it watch certain programs and it will alert me on my cell phone through the mobile app (also free) if that program stops responding. comes in very handy.

[Guest]

Thanks but I need the functionality for "custom-made" something  and I can get it from the Internet. Someone need to build it first.

And  here came autoit for this task

[Spider001]

Do you have c# expirence ?

It's easy from there

Process[] procs;
procs = Process.GetProcessesByName(appName);
bool restartRequired = false;
foreach (Process proc in procs) {
    if (!proc.Responding) {
        restartRequired = true;
        proc.Kill();
        break;
    }
}

if (restartRequired) {
Process procRun = new Process();
procRun.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Winword.exe"
procRun.Start();
}

Edited February 2, 2015 by Spider001

[JohnOne]

There's an API named something similar to IsHungAppWindow which may be of use to you.

[Guest]

 

Do you have c# expirence ?

It's easy from there

Process[] procs;
procs = Process.GetProcessesByName(appName);
bool restartRequired = false;
foreach (Process proc in procs) {
    if (!proc.Responding) {
        restartRequired = true;
        proc.Kill();
        break;
    }
}

if (restartRequired) {
Process procRun = new Process();
procRun.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Winword.exe"
procRun.Start();
}

1) The appName can be the exe name or pid? My code knows what is the exe name or pid so it will better to use a variable that already exists to know if the process crashed.

2)  !proc.Responding really means that the app crashed and not just not responding? I need it to be True only when the error "has stopped working" occurred.

 Maybe this is a more efficient way then using _EventLog functions

Edited February 2, 2015 by Guest

[Guest]

I just started to write this code.
I built this base to move forward from here.

It's objective is to detect an error from event log in realtime in background

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#include <EventLog.au3>
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_AU3Check=n


HotKeySet('{ESC}','Exit1')
Func Exit1()
    Exit
EndFunc


; Proses name/pid - Global varibale


AppCrashEventDetector_StartStop(1) ; Start the AppCrashEventDetector function...

While 1
    Sleep(1000)
    ; Other Code
WEnd

AppCrashEventDetector_StartStop(0) ; Stop the AppCrashEventDetector function...

; $NError Parameter is for internal use only
Func AppCrashEventDetector_StartStop($StartUp,$NError = 0)
    Local Static $Error
    If $NError Then $Error = $NError
    If $Error And $StartUp >= 0 Then Return

    If $StartUp = 1 Then
        If Not AdlibRegister('AppCrashEventDetector',5000) Then $Error = 1
    Else
        AdlibUnRegister('AppCrashEventDetector')
    EndIf
EndFunc


; You should never call this function directly! Look at everything except what inside "If $nEventRNumber <> $aEvent[1] Then" as internal use.
Func AppCrashEventDetector()

    Local $hEventLog = _EventLog__Open('', 'Application')
    If $hEventLog = 0 Then
        AppCrashEventDetector_StartStop(-1,2)
        Return
    EndIf

    Local $aEvent = _EventLog__Read($hEventLog, True, False) ; read last event
    If Not $aEvent[0] Then
        AppCrashEventDetector_StartStop(-1,3)
        Return
    EndIf

    Local Static $nEventRNumber = $aEvent[1]

    If $nEventRNumber <> $aEvent[1] Then
        ; When new Error will be detected in the event log, It will prit the error here

        ConsoleWrite("Result ............: " & $aEvent[0]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Record number .....: " & $aEvent[1])
        ConsoleWrite("Submitted .........: " & $aEvent[2] & " " & $aEvent[3]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Generated .........: " & $aEvent[4] & " " & $aEvent[5]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Event ID ..........: " & $aEvent[6]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Type ..............: " & $aEvent[8]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Category ..........: " & $aEvent[9]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Source ............: " & $aEvent[10]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Computer ..........: " & $aEvent[11]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Username ..........: " & $aEvent[12]&@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite("Description .......: " &@CRLF&$aEvent[13]&@CRLF)

        ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & @CRLF & @CRLF)
        $nEventRNumber = $aEvent[1]
    EndIf

    _EventLog__Close($hEventLog)

EndFunc

Maybe this code snippet is useful to someone.

From here it's not a problem to do what I need .. (I just need to write the needed code in If $nEventRNumber <> $aEvent[1] Then)

The name of the function is incorrect because this is not finished function. The name should be NewEventDetector()

EDIT:

I added some important comments in the code

Edited February 2, 2015 by Guest