Detecting current parent (exe) application

[FOstyn]

Is there a way to detect which user interface is currently running ?
I want to detect, in the process model, if the user is currently running the 'standard' SeqEdit.exe or a custom user interface.

Maybe is it possible with the Engine.Caller but I have at this moment no clue how to do this.

TIA.

[Greil]

You can try to guess the name by using this solution:

I'm using a tool from the Sysinternals suite: PsTools -> PsList

Batchfile:

echo off

PsList SeqEdit

if errorlevel 1 goto error

echo ---------- SeqEdit found -----------

goto end

:error

echo ----------- not found --------------

:end

pause

Or the "PsList" can also be used as a "Call Executable" step. 

Message Edited by Martin Greil on 04-05-2010 04:04 AM

[FOstyn · Accepted solution]

Thanks Martin for your suggestion.

It's not exactly what I was looking for, because I didn't want to create a new (extra) file (batch or dll,..) .

But it helped me to re-think my problem and of course...

In our process model, we create an instance of a (.NET) custom dll, so, .NET has a Process class and the GetCurrentProcess() method returns the name of the current (exe) application...

Thanks.