/* Copyright (C) 2014 by Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
 * Software engineering by Intevation GmbH
 *
 * This file is Free Software under the GNU GPL (v>=2)
 * and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY!
 * See LICENSE.txt for details.
 *
 * Parts of this code (especially windows) are based on kpimutils processes.cpp
 * available under LGPL 2.1 or later.
 */
#ifndef PROCESSHELP_H
#define PROCESSHELP_H

#include <QList>
#include <QString>

/**
 * @file Static helper functions for process handling
 * @brief process handling functions
 */

namespace ProcessHelp {
    /**
    * @brief look up process id's for a processName
    *
    * Looks up processes run by the current user.
    *
    * @param[in] processName the name of the process to look for
    * @returns a list of pids that match this process. May be empty
    */
    const QList<int> getProcessesIdForName(const QString &processName);

    /**
    * @brief check if another process with the same name exists
    *
    * @param[in] processName name of the process to look for.
    *
    * @returns true if one or more processes (other than the current process) exist
    */
    bool otherProcessesExist(const QString &processName);

    /**
    * @brief Activates the window for first found process 
    * @param [in] executableName executableName (without path and .exe extension)
    */
    void activateWindowForProcess(const QString &executableName);
}
#endif // PROCESSHELP_H