Looking for app launch monitoring utility

[john p.]

I'm looking for a utility which will sit quietly and watch for the
opening of a specified application or window, and then run a
designated task, in particular, launch another program. Thanks.

 

[john p.]

Why not launch the prog by hotkey with The Wonderful Icon, using its
'do two commands' function...

Then you've got TWI in your sys tray and can do lots of other things
too

http://www.thewonderfulicon.com/pages/features.htm

Thanks, I've already got programs which will do all of those things. I
want a program that will work as above regardless of how the watched
app is launched - from a shortcut or by opening a registered file
type.

 

[Terry]

I'm looking for a utility which will sit quietly and watch for the
opening of a specified application or window, and then run a
designated task, in particular, launch another program. Thanks.

Why not launch the prog by hotkey with The Wonderful Icon, using its
'do two commands' function...

Then you've got TWI in your sys tray and can do lots of other things
too

http://www.thewonderfulicon.com/pages/features.htm

 

[Terry]

I'm looking for a utility which will sit quietly and watch for the
opening of a specified application or window, and then run a
designated task, in particular, launch another program. Thanks.

Have a look at rtvreco. The unregistered version of the shareware
version will last forever and limits you to 5 events only. I just
tested it and it worked perfectly. You need to specify a hot key for
the designated task that rtvreco is prepared to allow so you might
need a prog that allows you to do this.
The prog allows modifier keys of Shift, Ctrl, and Alt for shortcuts.
In my test I simply used F4 and it worked perfectly. I launched Agent
and the desktop locked up...

http://www.clearlight.com/~rtvsoft/products.htm


It will also run batch files if you so desire when finding the
required window; if this gives you the functionality you desire then
there are at least two pure freeware versions of the prog about. One
is here:


http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/rtvreco