Re: Weird feature of "if it exists" or?
Re: Weird feature of "if it exists" or?
- Subject: Re: Weird feature of "if it exists" or?
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:13:50 -0600
At 4:13 PM -0600 14/09/03, Robert Poland wrote:
set x to file ID of application "SETI@home_OSX" gets error
"...Can't get last file.
Sorry Bob, but that's not enough yet.
This line errors on my machine, too, for a running application, both
in a "tell Finder" wrapper or not:
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tell application "Finder" to set x to file id of application "Smile"
--> error
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set x to file id of application "Smile"
--> error
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Please do run the following on a machine where SETI@home_OSX is
currently running:
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tell application "Finder" to get creator type of process "SETI@home_OSX"
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Emmanuel
You're right, it still won't run.
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tell application "Finder" to get creator type of process "SETI@home_OSX"
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doesn't seem to be the cure for the main problem.
There are a number of ways to see if the app is running, but I need a
way to see if the app exists without causing a search for the app.
Nigel Garvey <email@hidden> came up with this
which seems to work. Not mentioning the app by name seems to be the
cure.
tell application "Finder"
if not ((some process whose creator type is "Seti") exists) then
if application file id "Seti" exists then open application file id "Seti"
end if
end tell
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