Comments on: How to find whether a GUI application is freezed or is not responding? http://weseetips.com/2008/04/25/how-to-find-whether-a-gui-application-is-freezed-or-is-not-responding/ Gold mine of Visual C++ tricks! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:07:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: How to find whether a GUI application is not responding? « Roman’s Blog http://weseetips.com/2008/04/25/how-to-find-whether-a-gui-application-is-freezed-or-is-not-responding/comment-page-1/#comment-69 How to find whether a GUI application is not responding? « Roman’s Blog Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:18:52 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-69 [...] info By Roman Hnatiuk Categories: Snippets and Tricks How to find whether a GUI application is freezed or is not responding? - does exactly that… Everything is around the SendMessageTimeout function and [...] [...] info By Roman Hnatiuk Categories: Snippets and Tricks How to find whether a GUI application is freezed or is not responding? – does exactly that… Everything is around the SendMessageTimeout function and [...]

]]> By: Nishad S http://weseetips.com/2008/04/25/how-to-find-whether-a-gui-application-is-freezed-or-is-not-responding/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Nishad S Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:25:58 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-68 If an application is not waiting for input, is not in startup processing, and has not called PeekMessage for the past 5 seconds, it is considered as hanged. Why microsoft is not recommending the IsHungAppWindow API is that "It is recommended that you do not use it in new programs because it might be altered or unavailable in subsequent versions of Windows" as per MSDN. I expected that Naveen should have tell this... ;) If an application is not waiting for input, is not in startup processing, and has not called PeekMessage for the past 5 seconds, it is considered as hanged.
Why microsoft is not recommending the IsHungAppWindow API is that “It is recommended that you do not use it in new programs because it might be altered or unavailable in subsequent versions of Windows” as per MSDN.

I expected that Naveen should have tell this… ;)

]]> By: Naveen http://weseetips.com/2008/04/25/how-to-find-whether-a-gui-application-is-freezed-or-is-not-responding/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Naveen Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:21:58 +0000 http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-67 There is an API, IsHungAppWindow() to find the hung state of a windows. But for some reason, microsoft itself is not recommanding it for normal use :( There is an API, IsHungAppWindow() to find the hung state of a windows. But for some reason, microsoft itself is not recommanding it for normal use :(

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