On Feb 21, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Pierce Freeman wrote:
I am having a little trouble finding a way to go from the name of a
process
to its PSN. Maybe it's just something I have overlooked, but all the
documentation seems to be going from the PSN to its name. My goal
is to use
the name of a particular process and "kill it" using Apple Events.
You can scan the array of dictionaries returned by -[NSWorkspace
launchedApplications] for the one which matches your criteria, and get
the PSN from that.
In general, I recommend that you use the bundle identifier, rather
than the name, to discriminate among applications/processes.
Cheers,
Ken
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