From: David Mullet <david.mullet@...>
Date: 2008-06-02T01:14:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Check for Open Application

Not Thisguy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to write a simple script and all I need to do is check if
> there is all ready a running instance of the word application.  I look
> and couldn't find much on google how to do this...which probably means
> it's really easy, so I'm sorry for this post but I'm still learning :)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> 
> koooee

One option is to try to connect to a running instance of Word. If there 
is no running instance of Word, a WIN32OLERuntimeError exception will be 
raised.  So you could do the following:

require 'win32ole'

begin
    word = WIN32OLE.connect('Word.Application')
rescue WIN32OLERuntimeError
    word = WIN32OLE.new('Word.Application')
    word.Visible = true
end

David

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