TaskList

Description

Short story: Recreation of Task Manager's Applications tab shows how to properly terminate processes.

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Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

• Force Your Way to the Foreground, Ask the VB Pro, VBPJ, February 1999
• Is That App Hung? Find Out, Ask the VB Pro, VBPJ, September 2000
• Kill an App Gently, Desktop Developer, VSM, September 2001

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module	Library	Function
CTaskList.cls	kernel32 user32	GetVersionEx GetClassLong GetClassName GetForegroundWindow GetParent GetTopWindow GetWindow GetWindowLong GetWindowText GetWindowThreadProcessId IsIconic IsWindow IsWindowVisible LoadIcon SendMessage SendMessageTimeout SetForegroundWindow ShowWindow
FTaskList.frm	user32	GetWindowLong GetWindowThreadProcessId
MCreatePicture.bas	olepro32	OleCreatePictureIndirect
MForceFore.bas	user32	AttachThreadInput GetForegroundWindow GetParent GetWindowThreadProcessId IsIconic IsWindowVisible SetForegroundWindow ShowWindow
MHung.bas	user32	IsWindow SendMessageTimeout
MRunDialog.bas	kernel32 shell32 user32	GetVersionEx #61 FindWindow GetWindow GetWindowRect KillTimer MoveWindow SendMessage SetForegroundWindow SetTimer ShowWindow
MTermProc.bas	kernel32 psapi user32 vdmdbg	CloseHandle FormatMessage GetPriorityClass OpenProcess SetPriorityClass Sleep TerminateProcess WaitForSingleObject EnumProcessModules GetModuleBaseName GetModuleFileNameEx EnumWindows GetClassName GetWindowLong GetWindowThreadProcessId IsWindowVisible PostMessage VDMEnumProcessWOW VDMEnumTaskWOWEx VDMTerminateTaskWOW
MVdmInfo.bas	kernel32 psapi vdmdbg	CloseHandle OpenProcess EnumProcessModules GetModuleBaseName GetModuleFileNameEx VDMEnumProcessWOW VDMEnumTaskWowEx VDMTerminateTaskWow
Sleeper.frm	kernel32	Sleep

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Download

Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution. Download TaskList.zip, 106Kb, Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2002

See Also

The following resources may also be of interest:

• AltTab - Constructs application lists, consisting of title and icon, as generated by the Alt-Tab window and Task Manager.
• AppIcon - Change your application icon at runtime.
• Uptime - Determine how long since the computer was last rebooted.

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