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Determine if an application already running?


terrypin

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Is there some neat way to detect if an application X is already loaded (but not activated)? If it's already loaded I want to Activate it, and take various steps. Otherwise I want to Launch it, wait for a longish time, and then take those same steps.

 

For my intended macro I can't just use Activate/Launch followed by a Wait for Window Title command. I want to paste some data to the program, and that is possible almost immediately if I just have to activate it, but it needs 15-20 secs if I have to load the program first. However, the title comes up fast in a second or so, with the long wait after that.

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Steve: Thanks, exactly what I need - somehow overlooked that!

 

Kevin: Yes, thanks, experimenting with that this afternoon and it gave me a much-improved macro. But next I'll try the If Program commands Steve suggested which look as if they might completely meet my requirement.

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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