hey, is there a way of linking two applications so when i open or close one, the other opens or closes? specifically, this is to link youcontrol with itunes.
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"linking" applications to open and close together?
- Thread starter jakeopolis
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Yes, but you could export the workflow as an app, give it the iTunes icon, and put it in your dock. For the uninitated, it would look and work just like iTunes.
The major problem I see here is when you close one of the apps, it won't automatically close the other...
I stupidly didn't save it properly when i first made it so i just wrote this, seems to work pretty much the same way.
Open that in script editor and replace the applications to the ones you want in this line "set applist to {"iTunes", "iCal"}" you can even add more applications to the list e.g. set applist to {"iTunes", "iCal", "Mail"}.
Then save it as an application bundle. Then you can put it in the dock and just click on it and hopefully it will work as described above.
EDIT: Fixed something that was broken.
Code:
global applist
global apprunning
set applist to {"iTunes", "iCal"}
repeat with each_item in applist
tell application each_item to activate
end repeat
set apprunning to true
repeat until apprunning is false
delay 3
tell application "System Events"
set processlist to get name of every process
repeat with every_item in applist
if processlist does not contain every_item then
my quitapps()
end if
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
on quitapps()
set apprunning to false
repeat with each_item in applist
try
tell application each_item to quit
end try
end repeat
return
end quitappsTop gear time so will answer any questions after that.
