Determine if a file is open

[winstein]

There is a certain application that I would like to check on whether the file is open. Basically the macro requires that this application is open before I do anything. Otherwise, I would put the message that the program is not open.

What is the best way to approach this problem?

Thank you for reading.

[Marcus Tettmar]

To check an app is open you can usually just use IfWindowOpen with the window title (or partial title). To check a file is open will depend more on how the app works, or what type of file it is. We'd need more info to figure that out.

[JRL]

Try ProcessExists>

[Tourless]

Given to me by JRL and modified to suit my specifics... basically I use this to check if quickbooks is open and if it is I close it before opening clean. If it's not open the script simply opens it. hope this helps.

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Let>Looptimes=0
Label>CheckQuickBooks
ProcessExists>QBW32.EXE,vQuickBooksRes
If>vQuickBooksRes=True
  KillProcess>QBW32.EXE
  Add>LoopTimes,1
  If>LoopTimes>10
    MDL>QuickBooks is failing to close.  Exiting script
    Exit>0
  EndIf
  Wait>0.5
  Goto>CheckQuickBooks
EndIf

Label>QuickBooksLogin
Let>tmp0=Q:\my qb file.qbw
ExecuteFile>tmp0,
WaitWindowOpen> QuickBooks*
Wait>3
SetFocus>QuickBooks*