Code To Check If An Application Is Running

[CharlesWhiteman]

Hello All, I have a document managment system which I push documents into from my access Db which is utilised on the click event of a button but the application needs to be running first.

I havent been able to solve it from current posts and therefore wonder whether anyone has any ideas on how i can achieve this?

Thanks

 

[MStCyr]

Hello All, I have a document managment system which I push documents into from my access Db which is utilised on the click event of a button but the application needs to be running first.

I havent been able to solve it from current posts and therefore wonder whether anyone has any ideas on how i can achieve this?

Thanks

Good morning

The answer to this may be found in Microsoft Knowledge base, Article Q88167

The API function used to determine if a specific program is running is
called FindWindow(). FindWindow() returns the handle of the window whose
class is given by the lpClassName parameter and whose window name (or caption) is given by the lpCaption parameter. If the returned value is zero, the application is not running.

Best regards

Maurice

 

[CharlesWhiteman]

Thanks, I'm a little stumped at the moment but will come back to this.