On Dec 14, 2008, at 6:35 AM, John Love wrote:
        BOOL         ExcelActive = NO;
        NSWorkspace  *workSpace;
        NSArray      *runningAppDictionaries;
        NSDictionary *aDictionary;
        
        workSpace = [NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace];
        runningAppDictionaries = [workSpace launchedApplications];
        
        for (aDictionary in runningAppDictionaries) {
                
if ([[aDictionary valueForKey:@"NSApplicationName"] isEqualToString:@"Microsoft Excel"]) {
                        ExcelActive = YES;
                        break;
                }
                
        }
        
        return ExcelActive;

Same NO return value.

Works for me. What do you see if you NSLog the application name in each iteration of the loop?


        for (aDictionary in runningAppDictionaries) {
NSLog(@"app name: [...@]", [aDictionary valueForKey:@"NSApplicationName"]); if ([[aDictionary valueForKey:@"NSApplicationName"] isEqualToString:@"Microsoft Excel"]) {


And is there some reason you break with Cocoa coding convention by naming a local variable ExcelActive instead of excelActive?

--Andy

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