How to know when some program is running

[mhamini]

Hello,

I want to create a progress bar. For this task I want to know when one program is running:

while(some_program.exe is running)
{
do something;
}

I can see the some_program.exe in the Task Manager of W2K but I don't know how to find if the program is running from C++ program.

 

[Zhasha]

have a look at this:
https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;175030#XSLTH3134121122120121120120
it tells you how to enumerate all processes and get their filenames
i dont know of a better way, since windows stores processes as handles (and a process can be running and delete/recreate windows so handles doesnt seem to be the best choice here)