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Check a process is running or not
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 7:31 am
by alemrantareq
Hi everybody, I've got a vbscript for checking whether a process is running or not. I'm going to check whether "notepad.exe" is running or not. Here is the vbscript -
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Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
Set colProcessList = GetObject("Winmgmts:").ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Process")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
If objProcess.name = "notepad.exe" then
vFound = True
End if
Next
If vFound then
msgbox("found")
Else
msgbox("not found")
End If
It works perfect in .vbs mode. Then I've put the above in a btn's custom property. I've just modified this code a little so that rev can work with it. The modified part is -
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If vFound then
result = "Found"
Else
result = "Not Found"
End If
Then made the btn script like this -
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on mouseUp
do the cVBScript of me as "vbscript"
put the result into tResult
answer tResult
end mouseUp
It says
As I've no knowledge on vbscript, somebody pls help me correcting the script. I'm waiting for the sound reply & to complete my pending project. Replies r most appreciated.
Re: Check a process is running or not
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:34 pm
by RRobert
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
Set WshShell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Robert
Re: Check a process is running or not
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:56 pm
by alemrantareq
Thanks
RRobert, That's really works !!!
Re: Check a process is running or not
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:11 pm
by AndyP
Thanks alemrantareq,
This is a great utility script.
Re: Check a process is running or not
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:10 pm
by chinedukoggu
Good day to everyone.
I recently joined this fantastic community and want some guidance regarding livecode.
Similar to the line questioning regarding the monitoring of an application - I wish to create a utility to monitor designated processes or applications via the windows eventlog system.
The requirements are to be able to:
1. List All running services.
2. List all currently running applications
3. Select the appropriate services or applications to be monitored by this utility (via a checkbox)
4. When a level of a particular event occurs such as a warning or an error - a small extract of the warning and the service name is compiled into a short message and sent.
Is there any LiveCode function that currently meets this requirement or do i have to utilize VBscript or powershell to monitor these events and then pass the message .
Re: Check a process is running or not
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:14 pm
by Klaus
Hi chinedukoggu,
first, welcome to the forum
chinedukoggu wrote:...
Is there any LiveCode function that currently meets this requirement or do i have to utilize
VBscript or powershell to monitor these events and then pass the message.
The latter one.
For platform/system-specific tasks always use "shell" (OS X/Windows/Linux) and/or
VB (Windows) or AppleScript (Mac) if possible, VIA LiveCode of course!
LiveCode itself does not provide these special means.
Best
Klaus
Re: Check a process is running or not
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:15 pm
by mwieder
You may want to read up on the Windows eventtriggers command. And then use LiveCode's shell command to generate the proper triggers and monitor for status results.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 10%29.aspx