On May 13, 4:41 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Tue, 13 May 2008 01:22:52 -0300, Ivan Illarionov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > On Mon, 12 May 2008 20:29:46 -0700, George Sakkis wrote: > >>> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jimmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > wrote: > > >>> > > can anyone tell me, in python, how to obtain some information of > >>> > > a running program? > >>> > > paticularly, if i am playing some music in audacious or other > >>> > > media player, how can i get the the name and some other info of > >>> > > current playing song? It seems that audicious doesn't output on > >>> > > run-time -- > > >> Your best bet is if the *specific* program you're interested in (e.g. > >> audacious) exposes this information programmatically in some way. It's > >> up to the developers of this application if and how they choose to do > >> it. Even if they do it, there's no requirement that the same API will > >> work for any other program of the same category, unless there is some > >> popular industry standard that most applications implement. > > > George, have you read my post in this thread? What OP wants is actually > > possible and it's quite easy. X server is the "superprogram" that knows > > the names of all GUI window titles. > > That relies on the fact that audacious (or whatever player used) actually > includes the song name as part of its window title. As G. Sakkis said, > this depends on the specific program used. And what about "some other info > of current playing song"? > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
since it's for lyrics displaying. you have to know time of where it is playing, the control of user, etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
