Hi Karina,
> Does anyone know if it's possible with lingo or some Xtra (buddy?)
> to check if an external application is open?
Your intuition is right: you can use BudAPI for this. Look into the
baWindowList() and baWindowInfo() methods.
Here's a thing I once wrote for this task -- I found it reliable enough,
but always wanted to do more with it. If you improve on it (shouldn't be
difficult), please post it back!
if AppIsOpen( "Netscape" ) then
-- do your stuff
end if
--=======================
on AppIsOpen( strAppName )
-- 1) Get a list of all the open windows
lsAllWindows = baWindowList( EMPTY,EMPTY,FALSE )
lsAppWindows = []
-- 2) Look thru it for the app we need
repeat with win in lsAllWindows
winTitle = baWindowInfo( win,"title" )
if winTitle = EMPTY then next repeat
bIsProbablyOpen = winTitle contains strAppName
if bIsProbablyOpen then lsAppWindows.add( win )
end repeat
-- Did we find anything?
if lsAppWindows.count then
return TRUE -- or return the list if you prefer
end if
-- We found nada
return FALSE
end
Hope it's helpful,
Rob
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