How to retrieve a list of currently running tasks?

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Created: eswar_illuri (25 May 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (16 Nov 2011)

A list of currently running tasks can be retrieved with TApaTaskList class. A task is identified by its association with the running application's window group. A session to the window server needs to be passed to TApaTaskList during construction.

#include <apgtask.h>    // link against apgrfx.lib
 
    TApaTaskList tasklist(CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession());
 
    TApaTask taskInForeground = tasklist.FindByPos( 0 );
 
    // Window Group ID of the foreground task
 
    TInt WindowGroupIdentifier = taskInForeground.WgId();
 
    // Thread ID of the foreground task
 
    TThreadId ThreadIdentifier = taskInForeground.ThreadId();

The first task in TApaTaskList is the one in foreground (the associated window group has ordinal position 0).

TApaTask contains some information about the task. For example, the thread identifier (ThreadId()) and window group identifier (WgId()).

Furthermore, there are useful methods such as EndTask() that requests the task to close normally, and KillTask() that directly terminates the task. SendToBackground() and BringToForeground() can be used for controlling the application's position in the task list.

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