[python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to monitor window open/close for all application?

[Tim Roberts]

reckoner wrote:
> Which is listed in the Python cookbook, second edition. Is it possible 
> to use this to monitor the open/close of different windows? Basically, I 
> would like to trigger an action for a specific window or handle when 
> that window class or handle opens/closes. Can this recipe help with 
> that? Any ideas on getting started with this?

Do you mean a window in another application?  That requires installing a
Windows hook, and a Windows hook callback must reside in a DLL (so that
DLL can be injected into the other process), which cannot be done in
Python.  There is the pyHook package, but I don't know if it is still
being developed.

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