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Is there a way, on a PC and Mac, to see if there is a program running?
To explain better, I want to make a video player, but I want to check if there is a program that is running that can make captures, like Camtasia. If there is, I would like to stop my program and tell the user that it should close X program.

Can that be done using LiveCode?

This would probably be difficult without an external. Why would you want to do this anyways? The extra time used to put such a feature takes away from the time that you could be used to create value for the user by making the video player better.

Not a big problem. On OSX you can do
On Windows, it depends on the OS... for instance, on XP you can say

Ok that is very cool and interesting. Just noticed the longer answer on the Mac OS forums, learning something new everyday