Looking at std.process I could not see a standard way of retrieving a process.

Is there any and if not are the functions available for just windows somehow?

I'm sure if there's no standard way I'd need to call the win api so if anyone could tell me which ones and/or the declarations if that's the case.

I really only need a windows solution.

Oh yeah I forgot to notice that by name would be preferred. Not title, but name.

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 18:10:28 UTC, Bauss wrote:
> Oh yeah I forgot to notice that by name would be preferred. Not title, but name.

I have adapted the answer on Stackoverflow [1] for D:

// These Windows headers require DMD >= v2.070
import core.sys.windows.winnt : PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, PROCESS_VM_READ;
import core.sys.windows.winbase : OpenProcess, GetCurrentProcess;
import core.sys.windows.psapi : GetProcessImageFileNameW, GetModuleFileNameEx;

import std.stdio : writeln;

void main()
{
    // 1) Get a handle to the process

    // 1.1) Example - get current process:
    auto processHandle = GetCurrentProcess();

    // 1.2) Example - get process with id 8036:
    // auto processHandle = OpenProcess(
    //     PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ,
    //     FALSE,
    //     8036 /* This is the PID, you can find one from windows task manager */
    // );

    // 2) Allocate a buffer for the name
    wchar[2048] name;

    // 3.1) Call GetProcessImageFileNameW
    uint bytesWritten = GetProcessImageFileNameW(processHandle, name.ptr, name.length);

    // 3.2) or call  or GetModuleFileNameEx
    //uint bytesWritten = GetModuleFileNameEx(processHandle, null, name.ptr, name.length);

    assert (bytesWritten > 0, "Error: GetProcessImageFileName() wrote zero bytes!");

    writeln(name);
}

Please note that this is Windows only and you need to use DMD 2.070 [2] or newer.
I'm not on Windows so I can't test it now, but this should be the basic idea.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4570174/how-to-get-the-process-name-in-c/4570225
[2]: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/n6bsnt$iuc$1@digitalmars.com