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bistritapcv
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5 years ago
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Connecting to a pid rather than to a process

Previously I was using TC 12 and C#        Connect.Sys["Process"]("java", 900000);      rootNode = driver.WaitProcess("java");   to connect to my Java process I start up.  But lately there h...
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  • BenoitB's avatar
    BenoitB
    5 years ago

    I'm not sure to understand the need but perhaps this do your job ?

     

    function GetMyPID(ProcessName, ProcessId) {
  var p = Sys.FindChild("ProcessName", ProcessName);
  var result = -1;
  while (p.Exists) {
    if (p.Id == ProcessId) {
      result = p.Id;
      break;
    } 
        p = Sys.FindChild("ProcessName", ProcessName);
  }
  return result;
}
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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor

BenoitB  Suggestion will work with one change.  Replace "FindChild" with "FindAllChildren".  FindChild will return only one process... and only the "top" one in the list.  So, use "FindAllChildren" and loop through the array of found processes until the process object found has the same PID as the one you're looking for, then break.

 

See documentation on FindAllChildren

 

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/test-objects/members/common-for-all/findallchildren-method.html

BenoitB's avatar
BenoitB
Community Hero
5 years ago

True, but i can affirm it will work as i've written, use it since a loong time.. (To terminate processs still executing with a certain PID).

Lot of the underneath Window API manage themself the picking of next sibling when they are called in loop.