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joe_2
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11 years ago
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How to test for the presence of a process, without generating an error if it is not there.

Need to test whether a given process is running without generating an error when it isn't. I have tried: If (Sys.Process("MyProcess").Exists = true) then... and If (Not Sys.Process("My...
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    Andrey_M
    11 years ago
    Hi Joseph.



    Use WaitProcess instead:



    If ( Sys.WaitProcess( "MyProcess", 1000 ).Exists ) then...



    1000 = waiting time in ms. If you don't need to wait your process to appear, just omit this parameter.



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joe_2
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11 years ago
WaitProcess.

That's what I was looking for, thanks.



Always love it when the solution to a problem is a previously unknown (to me) single command...

Learned a little more about VBasic and solved the issue at the same time.