How to determine when a process has finished initial loading

19 Sep 2006 4:44 AM

Notre Poubelle

Hello,

Is there a standard way of determining when a process has finished its
initial loading, such that it is ready to accept commands? For example, I am
starting Visual Studio (devenv.exe) from my own program. I would like to
perform some actions (like open a file), when Visual Studio is ready. Is
there a way to test when an application has finished displaying its main
window and is ready to accept user commands?

Thanks,
Notre

19 Sep 2006 9:03 AM

Gary Chang[MSFT]

Hi Notre,

I noticed you also posted a similar issue in the
microsoft.public.vstudio.extensibility newsgroup, I will follow up to there.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
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20 Sep 2006 6:09 PM

Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]

"Notre Poubelle" <notre_poubelle@online.nospam> wrote in message
news:1383A949-1946-462B-B378-07D63B19AAE1@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> Is there a standard way of determining when a process has finished its
> initial loading, such that it is ready to accept commands? For example, I
> am
> starting Visual Studio (devenv.exe) from my own program. I would like to
> perform some actions (like open a file), when Visual Studio is ready. Is
> there a way to test when an application has finished displaying its main
> window and is ready to accept user commands?

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/waitforinputidle.asp

http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/WaitForInputIdle.html

-cd