Re: Killall Finder Brings Hidden Apps To Front?
Re: Killall Finder Brings Hidden Apps To Front?
- Subject: Re: Killall Finder Brings Hidden Apps To Front?
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:30:19 +0000
Chunk 1978 wrote:
ok... so i've decided to use a simple apple script for this:
tell application "Finder"
quit
delay 0.25
launch
end tell
or this (which i believe is the same thing)
tell application "Finder"
quit
delay 0.25
activate application "Finder"
end tell
but i'd like to know about the delay. without the delay... in this
script the delay works to save the finder's window state and then to
relaunch the finder. should i be concerned about this delay on older,
slower computers? should it be longer?
Quitting an application and relaunching it immediately afterwards is a
bit problematic as the 'quit' event will return before the application
has finished terminating, with the result that you're trying to start
up an application that's in the process of shutting down. Sticking in
a delay is crude at best, and potentially unreliable as the time a
process takes to terminate might vary. You might try getting the
process's PID then repeatedly polling the system to see if that PID
still exists, and only proceed with the relaunch once it ceases to be.
(If you're in 10.5+, AppleScript's application objects have an 'is
running' property, although I don't know if they do this or something
else). To be honest, I'm not really sure what's best.
HTH
has
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