Re: No way to tell if an application is running without launching it?
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: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:05:53 -0600
Title: Re: No way to tell if an application is running
without la
Try this:
tell application "System Events" to set
allProcs to name of every process as text
if
allProcs contains "Distiller" then tell application
"Acrobat Distiller 6.0.2" to quit
No need to make this an application.
Regards,
Don
At 12:01 AM -0600 2004/10/06, Bill Planey wrote:
Hello,
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?
Here is the code:
tell application "System Events"
try
set the process_flag to
(exists process "Distiller")
end try
end tell
if process_flag then
tell application
"Acrobat Distiller 6.0.2" to quit
end if
... Could the Try statement be causing this?
Thanks,
Bill Planey
--
Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
email@hidden
http://www.appsandmore.com
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