This wont work on Vista. FindWindow is no longer an acceptable api to use. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Python-Win32 List" <python-win32@python.org> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:14 AM Subject: Re: [python-win32] How do you find the Windows process ID of a COM server?
> Salim Fadhley wrote: >> >> This is all new stuff to me. At the moment I do not have a handle to >> the Excel window, nor do I know how to get that. Presumably this is >> something that I can extract from the COM server? > > No, unfortunately. However, you can use the FindWindow API to do this. > It searches for windows by class and title. The Excel window class is > "XLMAIN". > > >> This window handle of which you speak - is it anything more than a COM >> object that represents the Window object of the Excel application? > > Yes. The world of window handles is different from the world of COM, > and Microsoft has actually made it rather different to move from one to > the other. > > -- > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
