Best way to check if process and win exists in one line

[Yanush Kartov]

What am I doing wrong here?? I want to check if my game is running and if the window is not exists,

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If ProcessExist("spongeball.exe")  && !WinExist ("ahk_exe spongeball.exe")
	MsgBox Remember to turn off


ProcessExist(Name){
	Process,Exist,%Name%
	return Errorlevel
}

[swagfag]

since Porcess, Exist and WinExist when used with "ahk_exe" are effectively the same, u got this going on:

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A | (A ∧ ¬A)
--|---------
F |    F
T |    F

unreachable code, what are contradictions for 200, alex?

[Yanush Kartov]

since Porcess, Exist and WinExist when used with "ahk_exe" are effectively the same, u got this going on:

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A | (A ∧ ¬A)
--|---------
F |    F
T |    F

unreachable code, what are contradictions for 200, alex?

a process can exist without its window being shown. So back to my question - how can I check if a process exists BUT its window is not exist

[swagfag]

youre right i overlooked that

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If ProcessExist("svchost.exe")  && !WinExist("ahk_exe svchost.exe")
	MsgBox Remember to turn off


ProcessExist(Name){
	Process,Exist,%Name%
	return Errorlevel
}

the following works for me, the only thing ive modified from your original script was deleting the space between WinExist (), this is a syntax error and doesnt call the function

[Yanush Kartov]

youre right i overlooked that

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If ProcessExist("svchost.exe")  && !WinExist("ahk_exe svchost.exe")
	MsgBox Remember to turn off


ProcessExist(Name){
	Process,Exist,%Name%
	return Errorlevel
}

the following works for me, the only thing ive modified from your original script was deleting the space between WinExist (), this is a syntax error and doesnt call the function

i see it works with svchost, however, with my game and even iexplore.exe it does not work, for example, if i have the process hidden (winhide) it will still see it as winexist

[jeeswg]

I hid Internet Explorer, but still found a window with class 'Alternate Owner'. I set SetTitleMatchMode to RegEx, to make it look for a window that had a window title of at least one character, and then it didn't find any windows.

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q::
DetectHiddenWindows, Off
MsgBox, % hWnd := WinExist("ahk_exe iexplore.exe")
WinGetTitle, vWinTitle, % "ahk_id " hWnd
WinGetClass, vWinClass, % "ahk_id " hWnd ;Alternate Owner
MsgBox, % vWinTitle "`r`n" vWinClass

SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx
MsgBox, % hWnd := WinExist(". ahk_exe iexplore.exe")
WinGetTitle, vWinTitle, % "ahk_id " hWnd
WinGetClass, vWinClass, % "ahk_id " hWnd
MsgBox, % vWinTitle "`r`n" vWinClass
return

[Yanush Kartov]

I hid Internet Explorer, but still found a window with class 'Alternate Owner'. I set SetTitleMatchMode to RegEx, to make it look for a window that had a window title of at least one character, and then it didn't find any windows.

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q::
DetectHiddenWindows, Off
MsgBox, % hWnd := WinExist("ahk_exe iexplore.exe")
WinGetTitle, vWinTitle, % "ahk_id " hWnd
WinGetClass, vWinClass, % "ahk_id " hWnd ;Alternate Owner
MsgBox, % vWinTitle "`r`n" vWinClass

SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx
MsgBox, % hWnd := WinExist(". ahk_exe iexplore.exe")
WinGetTitle, vWinTitle, % "ahk_id " hWnd
WinGetClass, vWinClass, % "ahk_id " hWnd
MsgBox, % vWinTitle "`r`n" vWinClass
return

I used your code to try to build a test. When I run the script it launched hidden IE. Now when I hit q I would like for it to tell me if there IE hidden or not.

Can you help me fix the code for that please?

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pwb := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")
pwb.Visible := False
pwb.Navigate("https://www.google.com")
;while pwb.ReadyState != 4
	sleep, 15000
pwb.quit()
Return

q::
DetectHiddenWindows, Off
MsgBox, % hWnd := WinExist("ahk_exe iexplore.exe")
WinGetTitle, vWinTitle, % "ahk_id " hWnd
WinGetClass, vWinClass, % "ahk_id " hWnd ;Alternate Owner
MsgBox, % vWinTitle "`r`n" vWinClass 


SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx
MsgBox, % hWnd := WinExist(". ahk_exe iexplore.exe") 
WinGetTitle, vWinTitle, % "ahk_id " hWnd
WinGetClass, vWinClass, % "ahk_id " hWnd
MsgBox, % vWinTitle "`r`n" vWinClass 


return
esc::ExitApp

[jeeswg]

Here's some example code.

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q:: ;check if IE window exists
pwb := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")
pwb.Visible := 0 ;False
hWnd := pwb.HWND
DetectHiddenWindows, On
MsgBox, % WinExist("ahk_id " hWnd)
DetectHiddenWindows, Off
;pwb.Visible := -1 ;True
pwb.Quit()
pwb := ""

WinWaitClose, % "ahk_id " hWnd
SoundBeep

DetectHiddenWindows, On
MsgBox, % WinExist("ahk_id " hWnd)
DetectHiddenWindows, Off
return