Question

One way I found is to check if the Perl Debugger is “loaded” by checking for defined($DB::single) and assuming Komodo is active, if $DB::single is defined..

But this might also mean the script is legitimately running as perl -d under the “standalone” debugger.

#!/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature qw/say switch/;

# detect debugger ..
SayDebugerStatus();
sub SayDebugerStatus {
   print "Debugger ";
   given ($DB::single) {
      when (undef) {
         say "not loaded.";
      }
      when (0) {
         say "loaded but inactive";
      }
      default {
         say "loaded and active";
      }
   }
   return defined($DB::single) ? 1:0;
}

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zakovyrya‘s suggestion leads to:

if ( grep( /.*Komodo\ IDE\.app/g,  values %INC) ){
    say "Komodo is running"
} else {
   say "Komodo is not running"
};

But is there another way?

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UPDATE today my isKomodo() routine failed. Some investigation showed, that IT changed my global path settings from “long” to “short” names (this is under Windows) .. there nolonger is a “KOMODO” string in the %INC hash..

I’m looking for a replacement.

Answer 1

What does your %INC contain when you launch script under Komodo? There is a good chance that some Komodo-specific modules are loaded.
It’s better to print its content with:

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \%INC;