returns the process IDs of process that have been opened with the open process command, but have not yet exit.
# Metadata
Platforms: desktop, server OS: mac, windows, linux Introduced: 1.0 Security: process
# Syntax
the openProcessIDs
# Examples
the openProcessIDs
put last line of the openProcessIDs into previousProcessID
# Description
Use the openProcessIDs function to communicate with process you have opened with the open process command.
Certain Unix commands such as "kill" require a process ID. You can use these commands to act on processes you opened by using the shell command :
put "kill -9" && line 1 of the openProcessIDs into whatToExecute get shell(whatToExecute)
On Mac OS and OS X systems, there is no process ID. Instead, the openProcessIDs function returns a list of integers. The first application started up (with the open process or launch command) during a session is assigned the number 1, the second is assigned the number 2, and so on. After an application quits, its process number is not re-used, so you can use the openProcessIDs function to determine how many times LiveCode has started up an application during the current session.
The list of process IDs is in the same order used by openProcesses function, which is the same order that the process were opened.
Programs that were not started by LiveCode are not included in the list returned by the openProcessIDs function.
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