> Hello,
>
>
> in my program (let's call: MAIN.EXE) i start a second programm (let's call: second.exe) with the run command. The problem now is, that my user can start my programm (=MAIN) several times. The second program can take about 2 minutes to finish - if the user starts my program MAIN during this 2 minutes again, the second program (SECOND) will also start for a second time, third time and s.o. ....
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> If i'm looking in the windows task manager, i can see the processes - how can i check, if the process SECOND.EXE is still running ?
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> Many thanks
>
>
> Markus
Welcome

I give you a small script who can returns you a the answer.
put your exec name in "yourexe" (juststem only)

LOCAL loWMI, lcQuery, loResult, loProcess
loWMI = GetObject("winmgmts://")
lcQuery = "select * from win32_process where name='"+yourexe+"'"
loResult = loWMI.ExecQuery(m.lcQuery)

if loResult.count=0
*well ..Run your programm run/n 
else
oo="Application running"
messagebox(yourexe+" is already running !",0+32+4096,oo)
endi

if you want to kill your application "yourexe" if running terminate the script above with this

FOR EACH loProcess IN loResult
if loProcess.name="yourexe"
   loProcess.Terminate(0)
endi	
NEXT

You can also use windows API (FindWindowEx).se this News2News link where you must know the title of your window appplication.

http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?function=-1&example=45

You must modify it a bit for testing if your window title is in the cursor.

count for  "Yout application exact title" $ wintitle to xrun
if xrun=0
*application not running
else
*application running
endi

you can also see this link in the same subject
http://www.ml-consult.co.uk/foxst-11.htm
Regards
Yousfi Benameur