Is there a way to monitor if an app is running on the system 1

[JamesBBB]

Hi All, I wonder if someone could help me please, I am writing a database for my music collection and the player I use is called coolplayer.exe, a very small mp3 player that sits in the system tray. However, what I would like to do is check when coolplayer is running so that I can show or hide buttons depending on its state. Ithough I saw some time ago a piece of code that can check for applications running, I have search tek tip and seen some chat about Excell but not a generic program such as coolplayer.
The reference site to coolplayer is here

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

Is there a way I can do this, and could someone help me, many thanks

James

 

[Golom]

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" ( _
    ByVal lpClassName As String, _
    ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long


If FindWindow(vbNullString, "CoolPlayer") = 0 Then
    [COLOR=black cyan]' It is NOT Running[/color]
Else
    [COLOR=black cyan]' It IS Running[/color]
End IF

 

[JamesBBB]

Golum

Absolutely Spot on perfect

Many thanks

James