Resolved: Test if application is open

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

How can I test whether or not an application is open?

#2

tell application “Finder”
set theList to the name of every process
if “QuarkXpress” is not in theList then
…
end if
end tell

#3

This might be more efficient since it looks for a specific process instead of messing with a list.

tell application "System Events" to ¬
	set is_running to exists process "QuarkXpress"

if is_running is false then ¬
	display dialog "QuarkXpress is not running"

– Rob