Get window title from a process
I would get the title of the window of the iexplore.exe process.
Important: it is not the active window, you get directly from the process!
any solution ?
Important: it is not the active window, you get directly from the process!
any solution ?
Geert G
use process explorer from www.sysinternals.com
Once you had the PID of the process you would enumerate all the windows and match it.
Something like this:
Something like this:
type
PProcessID = ^TProcessID;
TProcessID = record
PID : DWORD;
Title : String[255];
end;
function GetWindowNameFromPID(PID: DWORD): String;
var
ProcessID : PProcessID;
begin
GetMem(ProcessID,SizeOf(TProcessID));
ProcessID^.PID := PID;
If Not EnumWindows(@EnumProcess,Pointer(ProcessID)) Then
begin
If MessageDlg('Could not get hook to the process handles.' + #13#10 + 'Try Again?',mtConfirmation,[mbYes,mbNo],0) = mrYes Then
begin
GetWindowNameFromPID(PID);
end;
end;
end;
function EnumProcess(Handle: HWND; lParam: Integer): BOOL; stdcall;
var
PID : Cardinal;
ProcessID : TProcessID;
Title : String;
begin
If Handle = NULL Then
begin
Result := False;
end
Else
begin
ProcessID := PProcessID(Pointer(lParam))^;
GetWindowThreadProcessID(Handle,PID);
If ProcessID.PID = lParam Then
begin
SetLength(Title,255);
SetLength(Title,GetWindowText(Handle,PChar(Title),Length(Title)));
If Title = '' Then
begin
Title := 'Empty';
end;
ProcessID.Title := Title;
end;
Result := True;
end;
end;
A process can have several windows. You would like to get a list of all the captions, I presume.
^ This is true. The code I posted will get the last window title. It can be modified to shove them in an array.
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[Error] Unit1.pas(64): Incompatible types: 'Integer' and 'Pointer'
for
If Not EnumWindows(@EnumProcess,P
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ThievingSix:
Thanks for reply, i try this code:
Label1.caption:= GetWindowNameFromPID(3688)
and i try with anothers process and dont work.
the label is blank, do not show the window name.
Thanks for reply, i try this code:
Label1.caption:= GetWindowNameFromPID(3688)
and i try with anothers process and dont work.
the label is blank, do not show the window name.
please post your entire routine in which the error occurs.
I think it might be easier to insert into a TStringList variable than an array.
I think it might be easier to insert into a TStringList variable than an array.