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# isFinishedLaunching

A Boolean value that determines whether the receiver’s process has finished launching.

```
var isFinishedLaunching: Bool { get }
```

## Discussion

The value of this property corresponds to the running application having received an [`didFinishLaunchingNotification`](/documentation/AppKit/NSApplication/didFinishLaunchingNotification) notification internally. Some applications do not post this notification (applications that do not rely on [`NSApplication`](/documentation/AppKit/NSApplication)) and so are never reported as finished launching.

This property is observable using key-value observing.

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