just_add_watir | Advanced recipes for Watir » Win32API http://justaddwatir.com Advanced recipes for Watir Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Q. How do I terminate a browser using a pid? http://justaddwatir.com/2008/q-how-do-i-terminate-a-browser-using-a-pid/ http://justaddwatir.com/2008/q-how-do-i-terminate-a-browser-using-a-pid/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:47:15 +0000 admin http://justaddwatir.com/watir/?p=11 A. Get a window handle and close the pid using the Win32API ...
Example watir:

hWnd ||= Watir::IE::Process.process_id_from_hwnd @b.hwnd
pid=" " * 32
thread=Win32API.new("user32", "GetWindowThreadProcessId", 'IP', 'I').Call(hWnd,pid)
puts pid.unpack("L")[0]
right_to_terminate_process = 1
handle = Win32API.new('kernel32.dll', 'OpenProcess', 'lil', 'l').
call(right_to_terminate_process, 0, hWnd)
Win32API.new('kernel32.dll', 'TerminateProcess', 'll', 'l').call(handle, 0)
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