Is this program running?

[ewkearns]

Probably not.... OK, my most frequent complaint is that I find Sighthound not running. I have no idea why.... BUT....

if I had a way of checking to see it was (or still was) running and execute it if it wasn't, that would be a great help.

Any thought on how this might be accomplished within HS3...?

[mrhappy]

There is a scripting call which is hs.IsApplicationRunning, it has never been documented (sure it was not in HS2) and you pass the application name in and it should return true/false if it is running or not. So in your position you could have a recurring event to check and then launch it with hs.Launch if you find it not running.

[ewkearns]

There is a scripting call which is hs.IsApplicationRunning, it has never been documented (sure it was not in HS2) and you pass the application name in and it should return true/false if it is running or not. So in your position you could have a recurring event to check and then launch it with hs.Launch if you find it not running.

Thanks!

I'll look at this and give it a try. However, AND THIS IS HUGE, the REQUIREMENT to use a mostly undocumented arcane method to achieve results is holding this whole technology back on an epic scale.

I know I'm talking to the hand but, geesh....

[mrhappy]

I think I would probably be trying to solve why the application is not staying online and perhaps run some sort of application monitor to establish if any sort of memory leaks or something that is causing it to end and perhaps get it fixed rather than try and monitor it.