What programs are running?

[raulvelazquez]

Is there a way, on a PC and Mac, to see if there is a program running?
To explain better, I want to make a video player, but I want to check if there is a program that is running that can make captures, like Camtasia. If there is, I would like to stop my program and tell the user that it should close X program.

Can that be done using LiveCode?

[flintGA2c5a]

This would probably be difficult without an external. Why would you want to do this anyways? The extra time used to put such a feature takes away from the time that you could be used to create value for the user by making the video player better.

[mwieder]

Not a big problem. On OSX you can do

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put shell(ps Ax)

On Windows, it depends on the OS... for instance, on XP you can say

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put shell(tasklist)

[flintGA2c5a]

Ok that is very cool and interesting. Just noticed the longer answer on the Mac OS forums, learning something new everyday