Applescript to Quit Process

Monday, July 21st, 2008 | applescript, geek | | Comments | Trackbacks

I often find my ARDAgent process goes haywire what with all the IPSEC tunnels I work with. It became a chore having to relaunch it from the CLI or using Activity Monitor so I blasted out a clumsy Applescript to do it for me.

The script could theoretically kill a different process if you so wished.

property process_found : false
property process_to_quit : "ARDAgent"
on run
	tell application "System Events"
		if process process_to_quit exists then
			set process_found to true
		end if
	end tell
 
	if process_found = true then
		activate
		display dialog ¬
			"Are you sure you wish to quit " & process_to_quit & "?" with icon 1 ¬
			buttons {"Cancel", "Quit"} ¬
			default button "Quit"
		set button_pressed to button returned of result
		if button_pressed is "Quit" then
			tell application process_to_quit to quit
		end if
	else
		display dialog ¬
			process_to_quit & " is not running." with icon 1 ¬
			buttons {"Quit"} ¬
			default button "Quit"
	end if
end run

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