Re: Acquiring process handle and convert it into PID

Hello Michael,

> I ran this but the value returned was 0. I am trying to save time by automating the PID acquisition process.
> thx all
> 
> 
> import ctypes
> import time
> 
> time.sleep(2)
> handle = ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow()
> print(handle)
> PID = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetProcessId(handle)
> print (PID)

Not too surprisingly. A HANDLE is an opaque reference to *something*. Not everything that takes a HANDLE takes a HANDLE of any kind. Windows have HANDLEs, Processes have HANDLES, etc…

So you are missing a step here from getting the foreground Window’s HANDLE to the process it belongs to.

But truth be told: these are not ctypes questions. These are windows system programming questions. There are better places for this to ask.

And please learn how to operate a mailing list. Answer & proper quote to emails instead of writing new ones for every sentence. It is impossible to follow.

Diez
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