Getting Process state

[slcoder]

I have handle to a window.
How can I get the state of the process that created this window?

[golanshahar]

first thing you need to do is to get the proccess handle/id for it

DWORD pid;
DWORD dwTheardId = ::GetWindowThreadProcessId( hWnd /*handle to the window you have*/,&pid);

HANDLE hProcess = ::OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS,TRUE,pid);
// now you can do your checking on the process



now it depend what you want to check?
for checking if process still active:

DWORD dwExitCode=0;
::GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess,&dwExitCode );
if ( dwExitCode == STILL_ACTIVE )
{
// process still active.
}




Cheers

[slcoder]

Thank you very much!