Thread: Retrieving the handle of shellexecute

Hi all,

Is there a simple way that I can retrieve the handle of a newly executed application that was launched with ShellExecute. Although ShellExecute returns a HINSTANCE it isnt a real HINSTANCE just an int value.

Thanks

Do you mean a process handle? With shellexecute, you could do it in a very hackish way looking for the window name to retrieve an hwnd and then enumerate windows until you find an hwnd that matches, and with shellexecuteex, you can do it in a little less hackish way by enumerating windows and comparing with the process id filled in the SHELLEXECUTEINFO structure. This thread has some example code.

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...shellexecuteex