\r\nProcess p = Process.Start("SomeApplication.exe");\r\n\r\nif(!p.Responding)\r\n{\r\n \/\/ the application's ui is not responding\r\n}\r\n\r\n\/\/ on the currently running application we might use \r\n\r\nif(!Process.GetCurrentProcess().Responding)\r\n{\r\n \/\/ the application's ui is not responding\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nAlternatively we could use the following code, which allows us to set a timeout value<\/p>\n
\r\npublic static class Responsive\r\n{\r\n \/\/\/ <summary>\r\n \/\/\/ Tests whether the object (passed via the ISynchronizeInvoke interface) \r\n \/\/\/ is responding in a predetermined timescale (the timeout). \r\n \/\/\/ <\/summary>\r\n \/\/\/ <param name="si">An object that supports ISynchronizeInvoke such \r\n \/\/\/ as a control or form<\/param>\r\n \/\/\/ <param name="timeout">The timeout in milliseconds to wait for a response \r\n \/\/\/ from the UI<\/param>\r\n \/\/\/ <returns>True if the UI is responding within the timeout else false.<\/returns>\r\n public static bool Test(ISynchronizeInvoke si, int timeout)\r\n {\r\n if (si == null)\r\n {\r\n return false;\r\n }\r\n ManualResetEvent ev = new ManualResetEvent(false);\r\n si.BeginInvoke((Action)(() => ev.Set()), null);\r\n return ev.WaitOne(timeout,false);\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nIn usage we might write the following<\/p>\n
\r\nif (IsHandleCreated)\r\n{\r\n if (!Responsive.Test(this, reponseTestDelay))\r\n {\r\n \/\/ the application's ui is not responding\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We might, on occasion, need to check whether an application we’ve spawned has a responsive UI or ofcourse we might wish to check our own application, for example within a timer polling the following code to check the application is still responsive. Firstly, we could use the property Responding on the Process class which allows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","category-windows"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}