I would like a Applescript to pause while a specific process/script/app is not responding (temporarily or permanently) to system events, and to start-up again when the other process is back. In theory this could be done with a repeat loop provided there is a way to monitor the status of the process. Is there any code that can do this? via Terminal commands? via Applescript? Another possibility: can Applescript determine when the cursor has switched to the beach ball? Other ideas?
Quite simply in applescript terms, this is what I'd like:
repeat while "beach ball is spinning"
end repeat
pgrep
be used to get a pid from a string identifier?