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Re: Application process whose creator type?
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Re: Application process whose creator type?


  • Subject: Re: Application process whose creator type?
  • From: Steve Roy <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:29:28 -0500

email@hidden (Barbara Mueller) wrote:

> tell application "Finder"
> set theApp to name of (application processes whose creator type is
> "BOBO") as string
> end tell

It works for me, but maybe the application has to be running for it to qualify
as a 'process'. I usually use the 'application file id' construct instead.

tell application "Finder"
set theApp to application file id "BOBO" as string
end tell
tell application theApp
activate
-- do something
end

Steve

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