Give Focus to Another Program via scripting

[arirish]

Is it possible to check whether a specific program is running/open, and give focus to that program?

I can open programs fine, but this little thing has me stuck. Had a look through the help file, and obviously the 'focus' function isn't what I need.

Thanks

EDIT: Should this be in the Script Exchange forum? If so, can someone please move it there?

[admin]

Currently not possible and not planned. Not a positive answer but an answer.

[j_c_hallgren]

Could that other scripting app (AHK) help in this case? I'm not a user of it but have seen others make it work for things that XY couldn't quite do.

[zer0]

Currently not possible and not planned. Not a positive answer but an answer.

Just in the context of monitoring a specific program...not even as part of Custom Event Actions (CEA)? To be able to do so would be a blessing for scripting, because so much more can be automated. Just imagine...start a download of an archive of an ISO before going to bed...while you sleep, Zip is downloaded, extracted into a directory, mounted using virtual drive software, launched using silent install switches and, afterwards, ISO is archived off to a storage medium, a clean-up procedure is performed and PC is put into Sleep mode...just in time for you to wake up, make some coffee and start using this newly-installed software...all at a touch of a button

I acknowledge that not all of the described actions would involve XYplorer (nobody expects XY to do work of 3rd-party tools), but they would do so indirectly by the way of affecting the file system and triggering certain stages of a CEA procedure. With CEAs, the potential is huge and it'd be a shame not to tap its possibilities.

[TheQwerty]

...just in time for you to wake up, make some coffee and start using this newly-installed software...all at a touch of a button

Hold the phones, why am I the one making the coffee - can't XY do that as well?

And yes j_c_hallgren's right, AutoHotkey or AutoIt could easily accomplish this, or NirCmd.exe would be even easier.

[arirish]

...just in time for you to wake up, make some coffee and start using this newly-installed software...all at a touch of a button

Hold the phones, why am I the one making the coffee - can't XY do that as well?

And yes j_c_hallgren's right, AutoHotkey or AutoIt could easily accomplish this, or NirCmd.exe would be even easier.

Hmm... thanks to everyone for the answers here. Good to know one way or another.

I do actually have AutoIt, though I haven't worked with it in some time. I'll have a delve about, see if I can figure something out!