How to automatically restart a program when it's closed?

utz · Post by **utz** » Tue May 05, 2009 5:45 am

Hi there everyone,

I'm setting up a kiosk using the Opera browser. I've written a one-line MS script that launches it with the correct parameters (which allows me to run it in full-screen "kiosk mode"). Insofar as possible, I want to prevent a user from simply closing Opera with alt-F4 -- most of the other keyboard shortcuts are disabled by Opera when running in kiosk mode.

I've tried to extend my launch macro to run in a loop and detect specific keypresses that I want to suppress, but I don't really know if that's possible using MS.

If I can't stop the user from closing Opera, I was hoping I could get MS to monitor the status of that window and restart it if it were closed, but I couldn't get this to work either. Does anyone have any thoughts about if what I want to do is even possible?

Thanks,
Utz

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue May 05, 2009 7:02 am

Create a looping macro which uses IfWindowOpen to see if the Opera window is open AND/OR looks to see if an instance of opera.exe exists in the process list. If not, restart your main macro, continue looping.

For an IsProcessRunning function see:
http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1652

utz · Post by **utz** » Tue May 05, 2009 7:23 am

Wow, that's perfect! I'm always amazed at your speed and that you always seem to have thought of the answer ahead of time. Amazing service and product, thanks again!

Utz