Brethern --

How does one go about taking control of a program that is running on Windows?

Basically, I want to take control a program and tell it to exit properly (because if it exits on its own, it saves a bunch of data automatically. If I just kill the PID, then nothing gets saved).

After figuring out the classname from spy.exe, I am able to do this:

use Win32::GUI;
$smartboardHandle = Win32::GUI::FindWindow("TMainform", "");
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to get a handle for the program and I know the next step would be to issue SendMessage commands but since I don't know the API of the program, I think I am SOL (unless there is a standard message that says "Hey, why don't you close").

I have tried Win32::Process but invariably, I all I can do is kill the PID and that doesn't get the "Save and Close" I am looking for.

So any Windoze hackers have any clues for me?

Thanks,
Mdog