jman6495

Join Date 06/2008

Need Help with a bit of desktopX programming - URGENT

SO , i need an image that changes if a process is running or not

basicly...

if process.exe is running then i want the image to be tick.png , and if process.exe is not running then i want the image to be cross.png

i'm building an antivirus with the interface in desktop x and i need to say if the sheilds are running , they are processes on the system ,

any help would be appriciated

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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RomanDA did something that monitored any process herre: http://romanda.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=1&libid=77

Check out his tutorials, I'll bet he documented how he did it somewhere. Check out his tutorials and if I see him I'll give him a poke.

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WMI is what is used to check on the memory usage or anything else about a running process.

procs = name of process to check for

Code: vbscript
Function GetMemSize(Procs)
    strComputer = "." 
    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") 
    sql = "SELECT * FROM Win32_Process where Caption Like '%" & Procs & "%'"
    Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(sql,,48) 
    Found = False
    For Each objItem In colItems 
        MemUsage = objItem.WorkingSetSize
        ProcPID = objItem.ProcessId
        Diff = MemUsage - MemUsageOld
        Found = True
    Next
    MemUsageOld = MemUsage
  If Found = True Then
     'Do something here if you want, or not, mine makes a popup window show up
    Else
     ' show that the process is not running, gray out the box, whatever.
  End If
    
End Function

good luck

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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Thanks David!

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ok ... sounds good , thanks all , but is there a way to make it show different pictures if it is running or not?

to be honest , i'm not a programmer , i understand the code a bit but i wouldn't know how to make it display different pictures

i'm sorry for my ignorence

~jman6495

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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You wnat to fill in the IF/ELSE/ENDIF section at the end with what you want to do.

A little research is prudent now. Check out https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/help/dev_guide_3b_script_reference.htm

object.picture bight be your friend.

(but then again . . I'm a DX hack )

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Cool code.

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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Would I need to set proc equal to the process I want or would I just enumerate it in the code?

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Jsut add

Code: vbscript
' add this to the timer, or loop your using to check to see if the process is running
Call  GetMemSize("Firefox")
 
' Then in the function (if you want to swap STATES - much better idea than pictures)
Function GetMemSize(Procs)
    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\CIMV2")
    sql = "SELECT * FROM Win32_Process where Caption Like '%" & Procs & "%'"
    Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(sql,,48)
    Found = False
    For Each objItem In colItems
        ProcPID = objItem.ProcessId
        Found = True
    Next
    If Found = True Then
     desktopx.object("OBJECTNAMEHERE).state = "Running"  
    Else
     desktopx.object("OBJECTNAMEHERE).state = "NotRunning"
    End If
End Function

then make 2 states in "OBJECTNAMEHERE" called "Running" and "NotRunning" (CaSe Is ImPoRtant)

that should work.

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ZubaZ

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Ahhh!

Thanks

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Quoting sViz,

reply 6

Cool code.

There is soo much WMI can do, the best way to play with it is to download the WMI Code Creator i have used it on XP, Vista and 7 and it works on all of them, granted there are things that are not there on 7 that were there in XP, etc. But at least you can try out code snippits with it. Its really great.

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There is soo much WMI can do, the best way to play with it is to download the WMI Code Creator

Wow. That's awesome! Thanks, Roman.

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sViz,

If im looking for something from the system ill do a google search like "WMI Process Memory Usage" and it will show all kinds of things.

you end up with something like this: http://aspalliance.com/806_CodeSnip_Get_memory_size_usage_using_WMI_and_NET_20

some cool things out there.

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