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Re: query if application is open
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Re: query if application is open


  • Subject: Re: query if application is open
  • From: "Jacob Eggers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:25:55 -0500

Thank you, that works great.
(I used 'if application process "iTunes" exists then...')

j

On 2/21/07, kai < email@hidden> wrote:

On 21 Feb 2007, at 23:06, Michelle Steiner wrote:

> On Feb 21, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Jacob Eggers wrote:
>
>> How do you check to see if an application is currently running? I
>> wan to
>> check to see if iTunes is playing and am using
>
> The following script will return true if iTunes is running
>
> tell application "System Events"
>       (application processes whose name is "iTunes") is not {}
> end tell

As will an existence test:

tell application "System Events"
        application process "iTunes" exists
end tell

---
kai


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