I wish to monitor and react according to windows "Task Manager"

[moked]

I wish to monitor wondows "Task manager" and wait for a certain process to start.
after it starts I want to wait for it's end.
when the process ends I want to launch a script and return to the wait position again.
I want the perl script to run in the background all the time and consume as less CPU as it can.

Thanks

P.S.
it's my birthday today

[Corion]

Using Super Search for task, and looking for posts by PodMaster, I found these two posts that should get you a long way towards your goal:

• tasklist.pl - dump win32 tasklist along with metadata - this one shows how to get the list of currently active tasks
• Getting Windows App Info with Perl - the replies to this question mention the Win32::Process module, that should give you lots of information

If you have further questions, you will have to post some code together with your question.

[moked]

I get an error about Win::OLE::const
apearently one of the lines on the file is cousing an error
I belive I am missing a file but I don't know which
If any one can help?

[Corion]

Where do you get the error? What is the exact text of the error? What is the exact code you are running?

Please read How (Not) To Ask A Question.

I will also need the exact version of Perl (perl -v tells you this). The Win32 modules do not work under any other operating system than Windows.

[edan]

That's nice. Good luck. Please let us know how it goes for you.

P.S. Happy Birthday.

[blackadder]

I was gonna say use WMI as Corion pointed out or PSEXEC.....

[DaWolf]

As Corion stated, take a look at Win32::Process and Win32::Process::Info.

Just to show you an example so you can have an idea of how the second one works here's a piece of code that uses Tk to show Process Information (just strip Tk out of it if you need):

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Regards,

[moked]

OK
I have managed to get another computer and I installed ActivePerl on it
I installed al the moduls needed and I ran teh naxt code:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 use strict;
 use Win32::OLE;
 use Win32::Process::Info;

my $pi = Win32::Process::Info->new (undef, 'WMI');
print $pi;
my @info = $pi->GetProcInfo ();   # Get the max relationships.

for (my $p = 0; $p < scalar @info; $p++)
{
    if (!($info[$p]{'ProcessId'}))
    {
        $info[$p]{'ProcessId'} = '';
    }
    
    if (!($info[$p]{'Name'}))
    {
        $info[$p]{'Name'} = '';
    }
    
    if (!($info[$p]{'ExecutablePath'}))
    {
        $info[$p]{'ExecutablePath'} = '';
    }
    
    my $pid = $info[$p]{'ProcessId'};
    my $pnm = $info[$p]{'Name'};
    my $pex = $info[$p]{'ExecutablePath'};
    print "ID:$pid\tNAME:$pnm\tExPath:$pex\n";
}


it runs and in the end I get the result I expect
but in the middle I get many warnings like this:

Use of uninitialized value in integer multiplication (*) at E:/Program Files/Per l/lib/Time/Local.pm line 76.
Use of uninitialized value in pack at E:/Program Files/Perl/lib/Time/Local.pm li ne 67.
Use of uninitialized value in pack at E:/Program Files/Perl/lib/Time/Local.pm li ne 67.
Use of uninitialized value in integer addition (+) at E:/Program Files/Perl/lib/ Time/Local.pm line 67.
Use of uninitialized value in integer addition (+) at E:/Program Files/Perl/lib/ Time/Local.pm line 76.
Use of uninitialized value in integer multiplication (*) at E:/Program Files/Per l/lib/Time/Local.pm line 76.
Use of uninitialized value in integer multiplication (*) at E:/Program Files/Per l/lib/Time/Local.pm line 76.

and it is repetative
Please Help !!!