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Re: detect launch of file?

Subject: Re: detect launch of file?
From: "Bryan" <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:34:44 -0500

And that OSAX is...
Survey Says...
"OpenedFiles Addition"!

> on 3/12/01 11:45 AM, Phil Calvert (email@hidden) wrote:
>
>> Is there any way (via applescript) to detected the launch of a file? I want
>> an applescript to do something only if a certain file type is launched.
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> In the future, it would help avoid confusion if you would use the correct
> terminology. You don't "launch" files, you "open" them. Also, you should
> refer to applications as "applications" or "application files", not "files".
>
> If you just want to detect when a certain application launches, you will
> need to monitor the running "processes", as Bryan <email@hidden> has
> already shown:
>
> on idle
> tell application "Finder"
> if name of processes contains "SimpleText" then
> --do your stuff here
> tell me to quit
> end if
> end tell
> return 1
> end idle
>
> If you want to know when a particular "file" is open (not an application,
> but a simple file), then that will be harder to accomplish. You *may* be
> able to detect it by checking the opened state of the file periodically; but
> I doubt that functionality exists in plain vanilla AppleScript; so you'll
> probably need to use a scripting addition.
>
> HTH
>
> JR
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