CoyoteScript - App Launcher

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App Launcher

Author: Sander

Script Version: 3

Minimum CoyoteMIDI Build: 563

This script will let you launch an app or a URL from a translation. You can specify the full path of the app to run, as well as startup arguments. If you want to open a website instead, you can specify a URL starting with http or https instead of the file path. You can also configure it to focus a process if it was already running, instead of launching a second instance.

Using the ‘Running”, “Not Running” and “Focused” conditions on translations will give you even more control over the behaviour of this script.

This script adds the following translation parameters:

App Path: The complete path to the file or app to be ran or opened, or the URL to the website to open.

Startup Args: The startup arguments to include when running the app. Usually, this is left blank.

Focus If Running: The name of the process (not the file!) to set as the foreground window if the process was already running. If the process was not already running, or no process is specified, the app will be launched like normal.

				
					// If the "Focus if Running" parameter has a value, and that process is indeed running, focus that process and stop.
if ($parameters focus) != "" && (isprocessrunning ($parameters focus))
    setfocusedprocess ($parameters focus)
    return

// Check if the specified file to launch exists or is a URL.
$path = ($parameters path)
if $path == ""
    messagebox "No file to run was specified!"
    return
if !(fileexists $path) && !(startswith "http" $path)
    messagebox "The specified file did not exist or was not a valid URL."
    return

$args = ($parameters args)
// launch the app.
startprocess $path $args

// Add the parameter input fields for the translation UI.
event uirefreshed
    translationparameter path (textbox "App Path" "The full path to the file of the app to launch, or the URL of the website to open." "" 0.6)
    translationparameter args (textbox "Startup Args" "The startup arg to launch the app with, if any." "" 0.45)
    translationparameter focus (textbox "Focus If Running" "The name of the process to bring to the foreground if it was already running. If left blank, the script will always launch the app." "" 0.45)

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