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Re: Is app running?

Subject: Re: Is app running?
From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:01:14 +0200

At 1:44 AM +0200 5/6/05, Brennan wrote:

do shell script "top -l1 | grep 'QuickTime*' | cut -f2 -d' '"


What's the problem requiring the full name?

Personally I do:

"QuickTime Player" is in (do shell script "ps -xwwc")

You get true only if QuickTime Player is one of your processes. Of course, this is fooled if an app's name is "FooQuickTime PlayerBar", but I'm not sure you want to spend much time to protect your script against that risk.

OMM (G3 900MHz), the command above runs in 0.07 to 0.09 second.

Your Finder's block runs in 0.04 or 0.08, depending whether I test a true or a false situation.

The "top" line runs in 0.6 to 1.0 second.

If you prefer words to figures: Finder is not so bad at that, and your "top" line is rather slow.

Emmanuel
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