Automator - Can I automate opening and closing an application?

Hi,
I am just starting to use Automator and I would like to get my computer to open a programme at a certain time and then close it again.
Finder has the action 'Launch Application' but does not have 'Quit Application'.
I have figured out how to link it to iCal, so that the application will open at a set time but I need the application to stop at a set time too.
Can anyone help?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) Also use PowerBook G4

hi dragonfly,
try this action ( http://automatoractions.com/files/quitapplication1.0.html )
that site has plenty of other actions listed, some even like this one, available from apple but not found on the automator downloads section of the apple.com site.
i have an app that i like to restart every few hours to clean it's cache out (it runs while i'm not at my computer), so i made a little automator action to quit the app, use the pause for x seconds, just to wait for it to clean everything out, and then launch the same app. i've saved the action, but i also made an app out of it, then i launch that app as a repeating alarm. then, after the last alarm, i made an action/app that just quits the app that i was relaunching. i know i could just use applescript in the last alarm to tell the app to quit, but it was jsut as easy to save the extra workflow/app for use with another app in the future, where applescript may not be available.
for future reference and searching, bookmark:
http://automatoractions.com
http://automator.us/
http://macscripter.net/
cheers,
- jeremy
2.0 Black MB, 1.8 G5, TiBook 400, eMac 800, 40gb iPod, 8gb Black 2G Nano Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mac Evangelist; Design Strategist: Print, Web and Multimedia
Message was edited by: Jeremy Bechtold ~ fixed a baaaaaad typo

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