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Re: force quit a classic app
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Re: force quit a classic app


  • Subject: Re: force quit a classic app
  • From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 02:26:47 +0200

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At 11:20 -0500 UTC, on 23-04-2002, Michael G O'Leary wrote:

> sorry if this has been answered before:
>
> In OS X, I can go to the Aqua Apple Menu and manually do a Force Quit of a
> misbehaving Classic app.
>
> How can I use an applescript to do the same thing?
> Ideally I would leave Classic running.
>
> I checked the archive, and have looked through the dictionary of the Finder
> to no avail.
> I tried just sending a "quit" to the app, but if there's a modal dialog or
> if the app is hosed, I want to be able to nuke it.

No solution, but just a suggestion on how to approach this:

I would look into making use of the power of unix through AppleSript's "do
shell script". In the unix layer you can mercilessly kill a process, referred
to by its id. The only thing to figure out then is how to get the id of the
process that you want to kill. (You can through "top", but there is probably
a more useful utility available.)

HTH


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