Re: stopping an application
Re: stopping an application
- Subject: Re: stopping an application
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:42:32 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden> message dated "Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:27:53 -0700."
Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > I was afraid of that... Is there an easy way to do that from the
> > command line given its PID?
>
>
> Not really. First, you need a window server connection; you cannot
> send Apple events without one. Second, you need to get a PSN for the
> PID. Third, you need to craft and send a quit event to the PSN. The
> first thing can be accomplished by calling NSApplicationLoad(). For
> the other two, you can probably find sample code on the Web or in the
> archives.
Thanks. This is pretty easy to do on the commandline with osascript:
% osascript -e 'tell application foo to quit'
And instead of saying "foo", you can say,
"/Applications/Utilities/foo.app", or whereever it comes from.
% osascript -e 'tell application "/Applications/Utilities/foo.app" to quit'
Still haven't figured out how to do it from the PID yet. It's possible,
just not a one-liner.
Bill
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