Displaying the Running Processes in a list Box and Optionally Closing Some of Them
The
“CloseApps” script of the next
example displays a list
in a dialog window that
the user may choose from. The list
contains the
names of all of the application processes that are running on the
computer. These include the programs that have a user interface
(e.g., windows and menus that you can interact with) and
faceless background applications (FBAs) such as
Time Synchronizer or File Sharing Extension. FBAs are programs that
work invisibly in the background without interacting with the user.
CloseApps is similar to one of the functions of the Windows NT Task
Manager utility, which lets you select and shut down a process. Figure 14-5 shows the dialog window displayed by this
script. Users may choose one or more processes, and the script will
quit the selected programs.
The script shown in Example 14-3 uses the
choose from
list scripting
addition and a list
of application processes. An
application process
is an element of the
Finder’s application
class. You
can get a list
of all of the currently running app
processes simply by requesting all of the Finder’s
application processes, as in:
tell app "Finder" to application processes
This phrase does not sound syntactically pleasing, but it does the
job. The script gets a list
of all application processes ...
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