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"tell application" without starting application?
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"tell application" without starting application?


  • Subject: "tell application" without starting application?
  • From: Michael Stillwell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:30:41 +1100

Is there some way to do something with an application if it is running, and do nothing if it is not? Basically, I want to do something like this

if is_running("iTunes") then
tell application "iTunes"
-- do something here
end
else
display dialog "iTunes not running"
end

but not have iTunes start if it wasn't running in the first place! (is_running() is always true in the code above.) Unfortunately, if seems that if "tell application" appears in a script at all, it seems to start the named program running.



Thanks,
Michael

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