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Detect Window Title - 11/3/2008 9:10:26 AM

jgutty

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Hi

Is there a way in VBSCRIPT to find a Window by it's titke name?

For example, if I have notepad open and the title of the window is "Untitked - Notepad". When I run the script to detect window title "Untitled - Notepad" it should return TRUE.

thanks

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RE: Detect Window Title - 11/4/2008 3:08:23 PM

rbennett806

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I'd suggest thinking about checking for the process instead of the actual window title if possible. I've run into things in the past assuming that the window will always be titled the same, and then things change and my code bombs. So would something like this work:

strProgramProcess = "notepad.exe"
Set colProcessList = objWMI.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = '" & strProgramProcess & "'")
If Not colProcessList.Count = 0 Then
'The .EXE is running.
End If

Of course, that's just a snippet of code and not the whole script....

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RE: Detect Window Title - 1/7/2009 7:05:11 AM

dstein

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Another option, found via Google search: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1215459&page=1

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