Re: Acquiring process handle and convert it into PID

if I still want to use Windll somehow, since I need windows API, how should
I do it?

thx

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Michael C <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Why is it a bad idea?
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:55 AM, eryk sun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Michael C
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I ran this but the value returned was 0. I am trying to save time by
>> > automating the PID acquisition process.
>> >
>> > import ctypes
>> > import time
>> >
>> > time.sleep(2)
>> > handle = ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow()
>> > print(handle)
>> > PID = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetProcessId(handle)
>> > print (PID)
>>
>> GetProcessId is the wrong function.
>>
>> To begin with, before writing a single line of code, you need to
>> familiarize yourself with the subject of WinAPI handles. Carefully
>> read the following pages:
>>
>> Object categories
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724515
>> User
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725486
>> GDI
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724291
>> Kernel
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724485
>>
>> Here's the function you'll need:
>>
>> GetWindowThreadProcessId
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633522
>>
>> Also, please stop using ctypes.windll. The global library loaders were
>> an extremely bad idea.
>>
>
>

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