Question

I am looking for some wxWidgets function to check if an external application is running in the system. Something similar to NSRunningApplications in Cocoa.
I looked at a lot of wxwidgets apis including wxProcess class but didn’t find a way to do this.
Does anybody know a way to check if an external process is running in wxWidgets based on its name or application identifier (not pid).

Answer 1

There is no way of checking external processes other than using the pid in wxWidgets.

The only ways of checking existence are for a process you have started yourself yourself using wxExecute / wxProcess or using the static function wxProcess::Exists(int pid) to check for a running process with a given pid.