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Re: No way to tell if an application is running without launching it?
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Re: No way to tell if an application is running without launching it?


  • Subject: Re: No way to tell if an application is running without launching it?
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:01:42 -0700

On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Nigel Smith wrote:

On 5/10/04 13:12, "Bill Planey" <email@hidden> wrote:

I have a script that checks if an application is running, then quits it if
it finds that it _is_ running. The problem is - the mere fact that
applescript checks for this application process is enough to launch it (and
then, of course, the script quits it). Just the act of checking seems to be
enough to launch it if it isn't running at the time?

Are you sure that is what is happening?

Distiller will launch when you try to *compile* the script, and if you save
it as a script document rather than an application it will have to be
recompiled each time you open it -- that will launch Distiller.

Script documents are compiled scripts. You're thinking of plain text.


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