Finding A Window Title If You Know The Processname/pid

[MadSc13ntist 0]

I was wondering if anyone had come across a way to find the title of a window if you know the pid and/or the process name?

I've been scratching my head on this one for a bit and figured i'd ask around.

Thanks for any help one might be able to lend me.

p.s. If there is a way i will post in the idea lab _ProcessGetWinTitle() ???

#NoTrayIcon
#include <Process.au3>

Opt('WinTitleMatchMode', 2)

If $CmdLine[0] < 1 Then Exit

Global $programpath = $CmdLine[1]
Global $pid = Run($programpath)
Global $process = _ProcessGetName($pid)

[AutoChris 0]

I was wondering if anyone had come across a way to find the title of a window if you know the pid and/or the process name?

I've been scratching my head on this one for a bit and figured i'd ask around.

Thanks for any help one might be able to lend me.

p.s. If there is a way i will post in the idea lab _ProcessGetWinTitle() ???

The only thing I can think of is doing a WinList and then a WinGetProcess for all of the open windows. Then you can match up the process names to the process you have running. Then you will know which window matches which process.

Hope this helps.

[MHz 80]

Just made for the task

$pid = 5568; A Known PID for example

$array = WinList()
If IsArray($array) Then
    $title = ''
    For $i = 1 To UBound($array)-1
        $winpid = WinGetProcess($array[$i][0])
        If $winpid = $pid Then
            $title = $array[$i][0]
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
EndIf
MsgBox(0, '', $title)

Uses WinGetProcess to loop through until a match of PID, then uses the title that the match succeeded with.

[SmOke_N 210]

Or

MsgBox(0, '', _ProcessGetWin('notepad.exe'))

Func _ProcessGetWin($aPID, $i_ReturnArray = 0)
    Local $aWinList = WinList()
    Local $aReturnValue = ''
    $aPID = ProcessExists($aPID)
    For $icount = 1 To $aWinList[0][0]
        If WinGetProcess($aWinList[$icount][0]) = $aPID And BitAND($aWinList[$icount][1], 2) = 2 Then
            $aReturnValue = $aWinList[$icount][0] & @LF
        EndIf
    Next
    If $i_ReturnArray = 0 Then 
        Return $aReturnValue
    ElseIf $i_ReturnArray = 1 Then
        Return StringSplit(StringTrimRight($aReturnValue, 1), @LF); Returns an Array
    Else
        SetError(1)
        Return 0
    EndIf
EndFunc

[seandisanti 6]

The only thing I can think of is doing a WinList and then a WinGetProcess for all of the open windows. Then you can match up the process names to the process you have running. Then you will know which window matches which process.

Hope this helps.

Smoke_N wrote something up for this a while back (not sure if he'd posted it, but i remember him talking about it) and i want to say that he did it the way you're suggesting SK. something to the effect of:

$pid = Run("Notepad.exe")
$list = WinList()
Dim $TheTitle
for $x = 1 to $list[0][0]
    If WinGetProcess($list[$x][0]) = $pid Then 
        $TheTitle = $list[$x][0]
        MsgBox(0,"title",$TheTitle)
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next

***edit** haha, in the time it took for me to try to re-create smoke's code, he put something else up. bastard.

Edited May 10, 2006 by cameronsdad