How to detect that Illustrator.Application is fully loaded (VB)

[ThinkingThings]

Does anyone have a trick that they use to determine that the app is fully loaded? Is there a method available that I might be missing? I manage most of the time but I'd like to get this problem trapped. Looking for a method available in the Illustrator Scripting API preferably. Within VB Try/Catch isn't working in this instance...

Thank you!   -TT

(CC2014, VB.NET on WIndows 8.1.)

[Qwertyfly___]

I've not used VB with illustrator.

But could you test CPU usage?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19252388/how-to-wait-for-an-application-to-start-in-vbscript

My other thought would be to open a predefined small ai file. let that start illustrator.

then test for that file?

only quick random thoughts and I have not tested them at all.

[ThinkingThings]

Hi imagecollection,

I think that the link that you provided may have some definite potential. I will investigate and reply with findings.

Thank you very much!

-TT

[Qwertyfly___]

I Hope it works.

i Should do more with vb as it has more external potential then JS.

let us know how you go.  

[ThinkingThings · Accepted solution]

So after a bit more investigation and understanding (and some sleep), I came up with some VB code to resolve my dilemma. Here's the code:

Truth be told, my biggest problem was self-inflicted, as I somehow had the VS UI set to throw exceptions even on handled exceptions, leaving pretty much no one to blame but myself. 😞 

imagecollection wrote:

i Should do more with vb as it has more external potential then JS.

let us know how you go.  

imagecollection -- thanks for your reply here. I truly hope that you do more in VB, as it gets pretty lonely here on this forum. 🙂  Please let me know if you ever decide to get involved with VB. I'd be happy to help get you started. 🙂

-TT

[Zetta]

It sounds like your in VBA, but in JS there is the BridgeTalk command IsRunning() ( See page 184 if your JavaScript Tools guide. )

If this is any help to you.

isRunning()

BridgeTalk.isRunning (specifier)

specifier A specifier for the target application; see “Application specifiers” on page 191.

Returns true if the given application is running and active on the local computer.

[ThinkingThings]

Hi Zetta -- Actually, I'm in VB.NET.