[python-win32] Wait for a window with a specified title

[Ram Rachum]

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> On May 27, 2018, at 6:36 AM, Ram Rachum <ram at rachum.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to use the `wmi` module to detect when a window with the title
> "Foo Bar" was created, and then kill the process that created this window.
> Is this possible?
>
> Not with WMI, no.
>
>
> > (I can do the killing without `wmi`, I just need to ID the process.)
> >
> > Note that I don't want to be periodically polling for that window, I
> want to be listening to an event so there wouldn't be a big delay.
>
> I don't know how much overhead you are willing to impose, but you can
> always install a WH_CALLWNDPROC window hook and look for WM_CREATE
> messages.  That injects a DLL into every process in the system, so I'm not
> convinced it can be done with Python.  You may need to write a C++ DLL and
> have it communicate with your Python process.
>

Oh, that sounds heavy. I guess I'm back to polling. Any idea how to do this
with polling?

Thanks for your help!


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