Thread: wrong pid with GetWindowThreadProcessId?

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    wrong pid with GetWindowThreadProcessId?

    hi i am using the following functions to get a module handler by a name or by a window title:
    Code:
    HMODULE getModule(DWORD processID, char* searchStr){ // gets the module by the modul name from an explicit process
    	
       HANDLE hProcess;
       HMODULE hMods[1024];
       TCHAR szModName[MAX_PATH];
       DWORD cbNeeded;
    	
       if(hProcess = OpenProcess( PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, processID ))
        if(EnumProcessModules(hProcess, hMods, sizeof(hMods), &cbNeeded))
        for(unsigned int k = 0; k < (cbNeeded / sizeof(HMODULE)); ++k )
        	if (GetModuleFileNameEx(hProcess, hMods[k], szModName,  sizeof(szModName)/sizeof(TCHAR)))
        	if(strstr(szModName, searchStr)){
                printf( "pid: &#37;u modname: %s\n", processID, szModName );
                CloseHandle( hProcess );
                return hMods[k];
            }
            
        CloseHandle( hProcess );
        return NULL;
    }
    
    
    HMODULE getModule(char* searchStr){ // gets the module by the modul name from all processes
       DWORD aProcesses[1024], cbNeeded, cProcesses;
    	
        if ( !EnumProcesses( aProcesses, sizeof(aProcesses), &cbNeeded ) ) return NULL;
        cProcesses = cbNeeded / sizeof(DWORD);
        
        HMODULE hmodule;
        for (unsigned int i = 0; i < cProcesses; ++i )
        	if(hmodule = getModule(aProcesses[i], searchStr)) return hmodule;
        
        return NULL;
    }
    
    
    HMODULE getModule(HWND hwnd){ // gets the module from a window
       DWORD pid = GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, NULL ); // !!??!!
       printf( "hwnd pid: %u\n", pid  );
       return getModule(pid, ".exe");
    }
    
    
    HMODULE hModuleT;
    char* searchStrT;
    
    BOOL CALLBACK shownWindow(HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam){ // EnumWindows callback
       if(hModuleT) return true;
    	
        char pcWinTitle[256];
        
        if(GetWindow(hwnd, GW_OWNER)) return true; // whats that?
        GetWindowText(hwnd, pcWinTitle, 1024);
        if(strstr(pcWinTitle, searchStrT)){  
        	printf( "wndtitle: %s\n", pcWinTitle);                                   	
           	hModuleT = getModule(hwnd);
        }
        
        return true;
    }
    
    HMODULE getModuleByWndTitle(char* searchStr){ // gets the module from a window title
        searchStrT = searchStr;
        EnumWindows(shownWindow, 0);
        return hModuleT;
    }
    but if i run:
    Code:
    printf("find by name ... \n");
    getModule("proton.exe");
    printf("\nfind by title ... \n");
    getModuleByWndTitle("Proton");
    i get this output:
    find by name ...
    pid: 3564 modname: d:\programme\proton\proton.exe

    find by title ...
    wndtitle: Proton
    hwnd pid: 3568
    what does GetWindowThreadProcessId return? is that not the correct process id?
    Last edited by electrohippi; 11-11-2008 at 08:41 PM.

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    The return value is a thread id. Try this for the process id.
    Code:
        DWORD pid;
        DWORD tid = GetWindowThreadProcessId( hwnd, &pid);

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    it works. thx.

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