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Re: discovering if a process is busy

The Window Server knows whether a process is idle or not based on whether it is pulling events from its event loop. Unfortunately, I don't believe it shares this information—I think it's all hidden behind private SPIs. Unless they added this in Leopard…?

Shawn Erickson wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 12:23 PM, justin webster <email@hidden> wrote:
So is there any way to figure out if a process is busy or idle?
I understand there was a way in OS9 to establish the total time a
process has been active but it apparently returns 0 in OSX.

I am basically trying to establish that a process is idle before
sending it keystrokes.

"idle" by whose definition?

-Shawn
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