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Tourless
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Probably asked a thousand times...

Post by Tourless » Wed Jun 14, 2017 2:12 am

Hi Folks,

I'm looking for a way to detect if a program is running and if it is close it. It could be a programmatic close of the program or a force quit, whichever would be more reliable. If the program is not found to be running then I want to simply continue on with my script. Basically I want to make sure Outlook is closed before I start my process.

thanks in advance.

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JRL
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Re: Probably asked a thousand times...

Post by JRL » Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:43 am

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Let>Looptimes=0
Label>CheckOutlook
ProcessExists>outlook.exe,vOutlookRes
If>vOutlookRes=True
  KillProcess>outlook.exe
  Add>LoopTimes,1
  If>LoopTimes>10
    MDL>Outlook is failing to close.  Exiting script
    Exit>0
  EndIf
  Wait>0.5
  Goto>CheckOutlook
EndIf

Tourless
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Re: Probably asked a thousand times...

Post by Tourless » Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:19 am

Thanks JRL, that was exactly what I needed. Can't wait to start diving deeper!

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