Quitting an application and checking if it quit with a script.

I need to shut programmes several down with a script and than check if it happened. If the programme would throw up a dialogue box I want it to ‘click’ OK. Than check if it is quitted and if not try again, failing that (the programme hangs) force quit it.
Would this be possible?
I am a novice at scripting and have tried to no avail. Any suggestions?

red_menace wrote:
You can quit an application with the standard saving options of yes, no, or ask, for example:
tell application "TextEdit" to quit saving no
I am familiar with this one.
red_menace wrote:
You can also force quit an application with a shell script, for example:
do shell script "killall TextEdit"
Not ideal, but yes (killall can really screw things up in the end like force quit). but yes if hanging....
red_menace wrote:
I'm not sure if your particular sequence will work if you want to save any changes, though - if the application hangs while quitting, then the script will also hang, and the saving options of the quit allow the user to cancel, which will also cancel the script. The following script will quit the specified application, but if there is an error (such as the user canceling) then any changes will be lost:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFDDFF;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "System Events" to try
if exists process "TextEdit" then tell application "TextEdit" to quit saving yes
on error
do shell script "killall TextEdit"
end try
</pre>
Agreed and yes it works if I substitute the 'yes' for 'no'. for some reason Text Edit does not allow 'yes' or 'ask'. do you know why that could be?

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