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On Jan 26, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:

On Jan 26, 2013, at 15:58, dealTek <email@hidden> wrote:
This simple script seems to work with some apps (like TextEdit ) but not with FileMaker Pro ...
I do have 2 versions on this app (v 10 and v 11) - is that the problem - ( they are both called the same by file maker = FileMaker Pro)?
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on appIsRunning(appName)
tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end appIsRunning
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Hey Dave,

I don't have FMP to test with, so I have to guess.

What result do you get from:

tell application "System Events" to (name of processes)

Is the name of the process the same as the display name in the Finder?

Thanks to all for the assistance,

Hi Christopher,

Your thinking was right on..

In fact in addition, I was trying to use the app named = FileMaker Pro Advanced.app

and the process was called "FileMaker Pro" not FileMaker Pro Advanced.app

so when I referred to it as "FileMaker Pro" then it started working as expected.

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Best Regards,
Chris

References:
	>appIsRunning(appName) not showing with filemaker (From: dealTek <email@hidden>)