How to find running processes (OS 9 and OS X)

[Bill Vlahos]

Tuviah has written a free Externals Collection which includes this 
functionality. It is available on the Rev web site.

Bill Vlahos

On Sunday, February 3, 2002, at 06:12  AM, Ian Summerfield wrote:

> I'm struggling with AppleScript,  basically I just want to make my own 
> "keep
> it up" type program.  Before I launch an application using AppleScript
> (which works), I want to check it isn't already running.   I can get the
> name of every process in AppleScript, or even the creator type, but how 
> do I
> pass that information back to revolution?   In Hypercard Applescript 
> could
> simply set a card field,  in Revoluion it doesn't seem to work.
>
> Or is there a better way to get the running processes?  Hypercard I 
> could
> just check the contents on the "application" menu!  Can I do similar in
> Revolution?
>
>
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