How to list running Mac Apps and close one of them

[Michael Aivaliotis]

Need a solution for LabVIEW on the Mac. I'm looking for a way to list all running Mac apps. Then I want to pick one of them and issue a quit message and have it exit gracefully.

 

Does anyone know how to do this on the Mac?

[ChS]

There are many ways. The Apple event way, the PSN way and the System Exec way.

The latest one it probably the simplest and faster:

 

to get all your processes in the format PID TTY  TIME CMD

 

   ps -xc

 

 

Get the PID of your process (first number in the line)

 

Then do a

 

     kill -9 PID

 

This will terminate your application abruptly!

 

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You can also send a quit event to the selected application, do it using "vi.lib:Platform:AppleEvents.llb:AESend Quit Application"

You'll need the application ID using "vi.lib:Platform:Targeting.llb:Get Target ID"