win32gui get the current active application name

Question

I am just learning python and I am relativity new to it. I created the following script that will get the current active windows title and print it to the window.

Answer 1

Install WMI package first (and pywin32 of cause):

pip install wmi

Then:

import win32process
import wmi


c = wmi.WMI()


def get_app_path(hwnd):
    """Get applicatin path given hwnd."""
    try:
        _, pid = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd)
        for p in c.query('SELECT ExecutablePath FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = %s' % str(pid)):
            exe = p.ExecutablePath
            break
    except:
        return None
    else:
        return exe


def get_app_name(hwnd):
    """Get applicatin filename given hwnd."""
    try:
        _, pid = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd)
        for p in c.query('SELECT Name FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = %s' % str(pid)):
            exe = p.Name
            break
    except:
        return None
    else:
        return exe