How to close an application window in Background?

pradeep,krishna has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hai all fellow monks

I have the following code to close all the opened Remote Desktop Connection windows.

  #perl

  use Win32::GuiTest qw(FindWindowLike MenuSelect WaitWindow WMSetText
+ PushChildButton GetSystemMenu SetForegroundWindow);
  @windows = FindWindowLike(0, "Remote Desktop Connection");
  for (@windows)         #--for each of the open windows do the follow
+ing
  {
       MenuSelect("&Close", 0, GetSystemMenu($_,FALSE));
  }
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The main drawback of this code is it closes only the windows at the foreground of my screen, as MenuSelect function works on the window with focus(Foreground)

Help me in solving this.

Thanks in advance :)

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Re: How to close an application window in Background? by roboticus (Chancellor) on Mar 20, 2014 at 11:22 UTC
pradeep,krishna: Then use the SetForegroundWindow function to bring each window to the foreground before trying to close the window. You're already specifying the function in your use statement, so use it. I find it remarkable that your post shows that you know the existence of the function, and you know that you can't close the window because it's not in the foreground. ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.	[reply]
Re^2: How to close an application window in Background? by pradeep,krishna (Scribe) on Mar 20, 2014 at 11:45 UTC
Dear friend roboticus As i have mentioned its a drawback as it closes only foreground windows, I mean that I want to close the windows in background also(I apologize you as I did not mention this) I don't want to disturb the fore ground windows as i am scheduling my script after converting it to executable file. So as it starts its job in background i want none of the foreground processes to be disturbed. Thanks for your valuable time.. :)	[reply]
Re: How to close an application window in Background? (GuiTest PostMessage) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2014 at 04:27 UTC
Why not PostMessage like Re^4: How to execute win32 functions when the user session is locked ( hwndSendKeys )? win32 is real easy, its sendmessage or postmessage or something win32api .. its all on msdn	[reply]
Re^2: How to close an application window in Background? (GuiTest PostMessage) by pradeep,krishna (Scribe) on Mar 21, 2014 at 11:05 UTC
Hi Anonymous Monk... I tried it.., but i am getting the error saying Undefined subroutine &main::WM_KEYDOWN called at login.pl line 33. Undefined subroutine &main::WM_KEYUP called at login.pl line 34.	[reply]
Re^3: How to close an application window in Background? (GuiTest PostMessage) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2014 at 11:09 UTC
I tried it.., but i am getting the error saying Why don't you define the constants?	[reply]
Re^4: How to close an application window in Background? (GuiTest PostMessage) by pradeep,krishna (Scribe) on Mar 21, 2014 at 11:13 UTC
Re^5: How to close an application window in Background? (GuiTest PostMessage) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2014 at 11:17 UTC
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Re: How to close an application window in Background? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2014 at 12:31 UTC
Win32::GUIRobot says CloseWindow $HWND Sends close signal to a window.	[reply]
Re^2: How to close an application window in Background? by pradeep,krishna (Scribe) on Mar 27, 2014 at 07:12 UTC
Thanks buddy... :) Its working...	[reply]