"Are you really looking to monitor the creation of new top-level windows, which means the creation of new processes?"
Does that apply to explorer windows? (i.e. when you open a new folder.) Because that's what I'd like to listen to. On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:45 PM, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > Ram Rachum wrote: > > > > I'd like to use the `wmi` module to be notified on the events of a > > window being created or destroyed. Is this possible? I looked at the > > tutorial and cookbook and could find many interesting things, but not > > that. > > I don't think WMI provide information about windows, although admittedly > I've underestimated WMI in the past. If you have evidence to the > contrary, please correct me. > > However, I'm pretty sure what you said is not really what you meant. > Remember that every control, every button, every textbox, every icon -- > really, every visible thing is a separate window. You'd get thousands > of hits. Are you really looking to monitor the creation of new > top-level windows, which means the creation of new processes? Because > WMI DOES provide information about processes. > > If you do want to find out about windows, you'd need to use a Windows hook. > > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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