| Technology area | Installer |
| Availability | Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later. |
The Applications object provides methods to obtain information about running applications. This object is accessed using the system.applications property.
Provides information about running applications registered with the process manager.
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An array of dictionaries (associative arrays) describing the running applications registered with the process manager.
Provides information about running processes with a given application identifier (bundle ID). For example, com.apple.TextEdit.
fromIdentifier( bundleID)
A string with the bundle ID of the desired application.
An array of dictionaries (associative arrays) describing the running applications identified by bundleID.
Provides information about a running application with a given process ID.
fromPID( processID)
A string with the process ID of the desired application.
A dictionary (associative array) describing the application identified by processID.
Last updated: 2008-12-16