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OneTrick

Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:55 pm


Reading External Process

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What is it you are trying to achieve?
As a cool project, I would like to make a turing program which could tell if any process is running. 
For example, if google chrome was open while i run the Turing program it should say "Google Chrome is open"
and if google chrome is not running when I run the Turing program, it should say "Google Chrome is not open"

What is the problem you are having?
I have no clue if this is even possible to do, and even if it is, I don't know where to start.

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
v4.1.1


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TokenHerbz

Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:25 am


RE:Reading External Process

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Im pretty sure thats NOT possible, I know you can launch outside process but turing seems to be blocked on the reading aspect of them, so to tell if your computer is running a game, steam or chrome etc I don't believe is possible... unless...

Someone might of implemented this in the OpenTuring project -> http://tristan.hume.ca/openturing/ -> i would have to read over the documentation to see what exact changes have happened over the 4.1 version, but I would suggest trying a different "Cool" project.


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ehhthing

Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:34 pm


RE:Reading External Process

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You could use the built in system function (http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/doc/system.html) and run the tasklist command (https://ss64.com/nt/tasklist.html).

If you run it like this:
[code]tasklist xxxxxxxxxxxx > file.txt[/code]
and read file.txt, you would get the list of processes or a filtered version of the list.