Determine if App is active

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

I was having a problem, I couldn’t figure out how to determine if safari was active, and I searched and searched and couldn’t find an answer! After a while I found my answers, and I thought I’d post them here, in one single post so hopefully no other noobs will have to search around for long. I found that “if application process “Safari” is visible then” worked. I know it seems simple, but it took me (the super-noob) FOREVER to get! Anyway, if this is the wrong place to post this I would glady move this somewhere else.

#2

this is the normal way, but you can also use the Finder as target application

tell application "System Events"
	if exists application process "Safari" then
		-- your code goes here
	end if
end tell