[python-win32] How do you find the Windows process ID of a COM server?

[Marcus Low]

This wont work on Vista. FindWindow is no longer an acceptable api to use.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com>
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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.
>
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