[tightsocks]

iKey and Keyboard Maestro can do this, but I seem to remember there being a freeware app that can has this capability, but I can't remember the name.

Any suggestions?

I want to have an action performed whenever a specified application is launched.

[cgc]

Maybe Spark? Free and very good...

[tightsocks]

Originally Posted by cgc 

Maybe Spark? Free and very good...

Have you found it to be stable?
What OS version are you using it with?

I am am bit leery of using an app that hasn't been updated for so long...

[Spheric Harlot]

Is using an AppleScript to both open the app and perform the script action an option?

[cgc]

Originally Posted by tightsocks 

Have you found it to be stable?
What OS version are you using it with?

I am am bit leery of using an app that hasn't been updated for so long...

YOu know you could simply DL and try it out... works like a champ in Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

[tightsocks]

Originally Posted by cgc 

YOu know you could simply DL and try it out...

Doh!

works like a champ in Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

Excellent!

[tightsocks]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Is using an AppleScript to both open the app and perform the script action an option?

Yup!
That is exactly what I ended up doing.
I wrote my very fist shell script and then put it into an AppleScript which I can then launch as an app.

Actually, the shell script would have been fine on its own, except that it always left an open terminal window behind and I couldn't figure out how to prevent that.

But, calling the shell script from AppleScript with the 'do shell script' command seems to avoid the terminal window.

I'm sure there are much more elegant ways of writing the commands, but it does seem to work...