[djohnson]

First off, thanks for helping on the last problem I had!!! It was exactly what I needed.

Here is my next problem. I need to find and view a running process. The process will be run either with a window or in the terminal. I found how to do it in Carbon, but need to use Cocoa. If you can, point me to a website with examples or just let me know the NS call I need. Thanks!!!

[djohnson]

Ahh... used my brain this time and found NSProcessInfo on developer.apple.com... Anyways, if you want to let me know if this is right or wrong, go ahead. If you want to make fun of me because I cant think right now, go ahead.

[djohnson]

Ok, now I can get the name of the process that I am running, basically the name of the program. How do I get another applciations process name?

[Rickster]

Any API that works from Carbon will also work from Cocoa... you can use what you found already.

If you'd rather not, well... Foundation and AppKit don't include any process management utilities. The closest you'll get is NSWorkspace's methods for finding out about other GUI applications. But programming with Cocoa doesn't mean you have to use only ObjC APIs... you can use the same BSD system calls the ps and top utilities do. (You can even check out their source code from Darwin if you need help.)

[ambush]

there's a very good wrapper around...
search..

[djohnson]

HA HA HA!!! I completely forgot about using ps and top... I will try using NSTask to launch ps or top. Luckily I have done that in C before, so I can do it here. Thanks and if anyone has more suggestions, let me know!

[djohnson]

wrapper? I will look for it unless you want to let me know where to look...

[DaGuy]

I had a similar need a while back and performance was absolutely key. I dug up some basic BSD C code and stuck it in my Coca class. if you can get away with using the Cocoa libs then don't bother with this.

The file name was GetPID.c by Chad Jones. I don't remember where I got it from. Google might find it.

[ambush]

Search for AGProcess

the most complete cocoa wrapper I know..

good luck

[djohnson]

Found AGProcess and will check it out in the morning. Thanks! It looks like what I was looking for.

[djohnson]

Just wanted to say thanks for the link! I got AGProcess working last night and it works great!

[Angus_D]

Most of AGProcess' functionality is now implemented by NSWorkspace under the -launchedApplications dictionary, isn't it?

Or does AGProcess also do *nix processes?

[djohnson]

AGProcess works with *nix processes. I will look for the NSWorkspace here in about 30 minutes. It works really well when you already know the process id of the applications running

[djohnson]

NSWorkspace does not work with unix applications. There is some cool stuff you can do with it though.