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torus
Contributor
4 months ago

get a list of processes with specific name

 

Is there a better way to get a list of all processes of a certain name (something that has a shorter processing time) than to loop through all processes currently running as shown in the below TC help document:

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/tutorials/samples/desktop/process-list.html

I was thinking it would be something like:

var myList = Sys.AllProcesses("Notepad");

Desktop Testing
  • torus's avatar
    torus
    4 months ago
    function testmememe()
{
  var processes = GetProcessList("taskhostw");
  var ij = 432;
}


function GetProcessList(processName)
{
  var p, i;
  var processList = [];
  for (i = 0; i < Sys.ChildCount; i++)
  {
    p = Sys.Child(i);
    if( aqString.Compare(p.ProcessName, processName, false) === 0)
    {
      processList.push(p);
    }
  }
  
  return processList;
}

    above is the code I ended up with and I guess it works pretty good. It's not too slow. Thanks.

    • torus's avatar
      torus
      Contributor
      4 months ago

      This [Sys.Process("abc") ] will only return one of the processes. So if it had three taskhostw, I would like to get a list with three taskHostw process objects in it.

       

       

  • torus's avatar
    torus
    Contributor
    4 months ago
    function testmememe()
{
  var processes = GetProcessList("taskhostw");
  var ij = 432;
}


function GetProcessList(processName)
{
  var p, i;
  var processList = [];
  for (i = 0; i < Sys.ChildCount; i++)
  {
    p = Sys.Child(i);
    if( aqString.Compare(p.ProcessName, processName, false) === 0)
    {
      processList.push(p);
    }
  }
  
  return processList;
}

    above is the code I ended up with and I guess it works pretty good. It's not too slow. Thanks.