Question on Shell

[Learning123]

Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if it is possible to have my program to watch a program if it is closed. example, I've launched "Notepad" and would like a msgbox to pop up if notepad is closed by the user. Any ideas or comment are greatly welcome! Thanks a lot!

Andy

 

[CasperTFG]

You can't know if a program closes but you can check to see if it is there.

So one way to go about this would be to use your program to open Notepad, then once it has done that enable a timer to check to make sure that it is still there.

The functions you want to use are Win API functions.

Public Declare Function GetWindow Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindow" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wCmd As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long

Public Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" Alias "WaitForSingleObject" (ByVal hHandle As Long, ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long
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[Learning123]

Great! just what I was looking for!! Thanks a lot for the fantastic reponse everyone!! much aloha!