[Question] How to get the process ID of the new activeXObject ?

[Taxman972]

Hi,

When there are 2 processes running with the same name how can I get the PID for each ?

var proc1 = new ActiveXObject("PowerPoint.Application");
var proc2 = new ActiveXObject("PowerPoint.Application");

So far I tried proc1.Quit(); but it doesn't works some time so I would like to get the PId and then call "taskkill /F /T /PID " + proc1.pid

[durs]

PID value is unknown, calling WinAPI CoCreateInstance does not give this. You need to free all links to each object and variant from this context.

пт, 23 авг. 2019 г. в 15:23, Taxman972 [email protected]:

Hi,

When there are 2 processes running with the same name how can I get the PID for each ?

var proc1 = new ActiveXObject("PowerPoint.Application"); var proc2 = new ActiveXObject("PowerPoint.Application");

So far I tried proc1.Quit(); but it doesn't works some time so I would like to get the PId and then call "taskkill /F /T /PID " + proc1.pid

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[Taxman972]

You need to free all links to each object and variant from this context.

Do you mean winax.release(proc1) ? Cause that doesn't works either.

var App = new winax.Object("PowerPoint.Application");
var Docs = App.Presentations;
var Doc = Docs.Open("full/path/to/powerpointFile.ppt");

Doc.Save();
Doc.Close();
App.Quit();
winax.release(App, Docs, Doc);

With this code the PowerPoint process is still running.

[sp3rk]

Is there a solution to this? (have the same Problem)

[crypticspawn]

I am having the same problem releasing my dlls as well.

[huhuime]

let ffi = require('ffi-napi'), 
ref = require('ref-napi'),lpdwordPtr = ref.refType(ref.types.ulong), 
user32 = ffi.Library('user32', {GetWindowThreadProcessId: ['int', ['int', lpdwordPtr]]}), 
pid = ref.alloc(lpdwordPtr);
function killHwnd(Hwnd) {
    user32.GetWindowThreadProcessId(Hwnd, pid);
    try { process.kill(pid.readInt32LE(0)) } catch (e) {
        console.warn('process.kill', e);
    }
}

killHwnd(proc1.hwnd); killHwnd(proc2.hwnd);