Hello everyone,
basically  i want to do make a script that checks if wmp is running or not, then stop another script from working.. i'm new to scripting though not to programming.. I've read official documentation and msdn jscript documentation, but still I can't understand how exactly scripts work.. any help is much appreciated!

You can use the EnumProcesses API to do this. I will try and post an example today for you.

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Originally posted by lovefallen
then stop another script from working.

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Originally posted by lovefallen
basically  i want to do make a script that checks if wmp is running or not, then stop another script from working..

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Originally posted by Matty
You can use the EnumProcesses API to do this. I will try and post an example today for you.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by lovefallen
then stop another script from working.

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I am no scripter so i may be newbing, but afaik you can't stop a script from another script....

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Originally posted by Matty
Change Enabled to 0. Then use either FSO or API to read and resave the file (or modify the date and time). It will call the script to restart but because it is Disabled it wont run.

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CookieRevised's reply to Restart script through code

The question is, lovefallen: why do you exactly (and in detail) want to stop a script? What is the reason behind it? (and if possible, post your entire code you already got to clarify this).

I ask this because in many cases you do not need to stop a script, or it is even not the required/correct thing todo to perform a certain action and there maybe might be better ways to do what you actually want to do...

Please see Eljay's reply to if (program.open)... for an example of how to check if a process is running.

ok here I am: the problem is that Now Playing and Appmon+ can't work together.. and I would like to disable somehow Appmon+ when mediaplayer starts so the song I'm playing is displayed.. I never written a script so probably this is a too much complicated start..

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Well Cookie answered your question about restarting a script. About checking if the exe is running, here is the function that I am using for my script IPGet.

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function checkProcess(strProcessCaption){
        var wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 0x10;
        var wbemFlagForwardOnly = 0x20;

        var objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\.\\root\\CIMV2");
        var colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process", "WQL",
                                          wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly);
        var enumItems = new Enumerator(colItems);
        for (; !enumItems.atEnd(); enumItems.moveNext()) {
                var objItem = enumItems.item();
                if(strProcessCaption == objItem.Caption) return true;
        }
        return false;
}

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thanks to everyone especially CookieRevised and cooldude, I'll try to turn your suggestions into something working!