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The application is Adobe Illustrator CS2 & CS3. The plugin is loaded once the application is launch.

well, first draft. take this script, paste it into the script editor and save it as a stay-open application bundle. (you'll also want to play with the info.plist file in the package to give it a non-generic name and make it background only, but that can wait until after it's been debugged). give it permissions so that only admins can run or execute it, put it in an admin folder somewhere so no one messes with it, and run it at startup. it should sit in the background and check once a minute to see if illustrator is the active app, and if it's not the active app for ten minutes it should throw up an alert and quit Illustrator 30 seconds later.

I don't have illustrator to test it on, of course, so you'll have to play with it yourself.

code:

Code:

property ticsSinceActive : 0

property idleTime : 60



on idle

        tell application "System Events"

                if exists (some process whose name contains "Illustrator") then

                        set theIllustratorApp to some process whose name contains "Illustrator"

                else -- illustrator is not running

                        return

                end if

                if frontmost of theIllustratorApp is true then

                        set ticsSinceActive to 0

                else

                        set ticsSinceActive to ticsSinceActive + 1

                end if

                if ticsSinceActive is greater than 10 then

                        tell theIllustratorApp

                                activate

                                display alert "Shutting down Illustrator" message "Illustrator has been inactive for 10 minutes.  Please verify that you are still using this application, or the system will shut it down." as critical buttons {"Close it", "Keep it running"} default button 1 giving up after 30

                                if button returned of the result is "Close it" or gave up of the result is true then

                                        repeat 60 times

                                                if exists document 1 then

                                                        close document 1 saving no

                                                else

                                                        exit repeat

                                                end if

                                        end repeat

                                        quit

                                else

                                        set ticsSinceActive to 0

                                end if

                        end tell

                end if

        end tell

        return idleTime

end idle

improvements. this version checks to see if it's been active in the last ten minutes, and also records the maximum and average cpu for the last ten minutes, and closes the app if either is less than 3%. you can play with the conditions and the %s to suit your tastes.

Code:

property ticsSinceActive : 0

property idleTime : 60 -- time to idle, in seconds

property timeLimit : 10 -- memory range, in minutes

property cpuUsage : {}



on idle

        set maxTicCount to timeLimit * 60 / idleTime

        tell application "System Events"

                if exists (some process whose name contains "Illustrator") then

                        -- get reference to the app

                        set theIllustratorApp to some process whose name contains "Illustrator"

                else

                        -- illustrator is not running

                        set ticsSinceActive to 0

                        set cpuUsage to {}

                        return

                end if

                set illustratorPID to unix id of theIllustratorApp

                -- check if illustrator is inactive

                if frontmost of theIllustratorApp is true then

                        set ticsSinceActive to 0

                else

                        set ticsSinceActive to ticsSinceActive + 1

                end if

                -- take a running snapshot of cpu usage 

                set shellCmd to "ps -c -o %cpu='' -p " & illustratorPID

                set end of cpuUsage to (do shell script shellCmd) as number

                if (count of cpuUsage) is greater than maxTicCount then

                        -- trim off items more than 10 minutes old 

                        set cpuUsage to items ((count of cpuUsage) - maxTicCount + 1) thru -1 of cpuUsage

                end if

                set maxCpu to 0

                set aveCpu to 0

                repeat with thisBit in cpuUsage

                        if thisBit > maxCpu then setmaxCpu to thisBit

                        set aveCpu to aveCpu + thisBit

                end repeat

                set aveCpu to aveCpu / (count of cpuUsage)

                if ticsSinceActive > maxTicCount or maxCpu < 3 or aveCpu < 3 then

                        tell theIllustratorApp

                                activate

                                display alert "Shutting down Illustrator" message "Illustrator has been inactive for 10 minutes.  Please verify that you are still using this application, or the system will shut it down." as critical buttons {"Close it", "Keep it running"} default button 1 giving up after 30

                                if button returned of the result is "Close it" or gave up of the result is true then

                                        repeat 60 times

                                                if exists document 1 then

                                                        close document 1 saving no

                                                else

                                                        exit repeat

                                                end if

                                        end repeat

                                        quit

                                else

                                        set ticsSinceActive to 0

                                end if

                        end tell

                end if

        end tell

        return idleTime

end idle

Thanks tw,

I'll have a try and see how it goes.

Cheers,
Jeno

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeno (Post 532996)

Maybe I explained it wrong from thee beginning. The main issue is that I am limited to a certain # of license software plug-in Apps. for Illustrator. Every computer has the software plug-in app installed, but I only have a finite # of licenses. When a user logs into the plug-in, does the task at hand, the plug-in remains active. That causes myself and my IT staff to walk around to all of the computers and see who is idle but still connected to thee plug-in. This is what I am looking for and to see if it is possible to write a script that sits in the background, instead of looking at each computer through Apple Remote desktop and see that way. Thanks

Are you running a license server? It sounds to me that is what you need. If you have a finite number of licensee and a larger number of users have the client machines use a license server. That way if too many licenses are in use, you can send network wide messages to have users quit those programs so others may use them.