Hi Stephen, you should have a look at the
CreateToolHelp32Snapshot() and Process32First() / Process32Next() API calls. Best wishes, Gunnar Gunnar Blumert Softwareentwicklung Waldstr. 117 25712 Burg (Dithmarschen) Germany Tel. +49-(0)4825-2892 (14.00-16.00h) Fax: +49-(0)4825-1217 Email [email protected] www.blumert.de ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Bowker" <[email protected]> To: "Delphi (E-mail)" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 4:14 PM Subject: Check if specific EXE is running and close/open it > Hi, > I'm trying to write a program that checks if a specific EXE file is > running. If it is, then I need to close it, copy over the latest version, > and then run it again, > Can anyone give me some help with whatever windows API calls I need to use > (or if there any existing Delphi functions/procedures I can use) > My code would ideally look like the following, so would need the code for > the functions I'm calling... > if ExeIsRunning('SPECIFIC.EXE') then > begin > CloseRunningExe('SPECIFIC.EXE'); > // do my stuff here - already know what I am doing here! > OpenExeAgain('SPECIFIC.EXE'); // Can prob guess that I use ShellExecute > here? > end > else > // do my stuff here - already know what I am doing here! > PS - I am using Delphi 5 in a Win32 environment > Thank in advance for any help > Regards, > Steve B. > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
