<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2" STYLE="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #FFFFFF">Simple. Write the milliseconds into the file. Then, when the app launches,<BR>
grab the milliseconds as its "launch date". When it goes to look in the<BR>
folder, it will read in the "leftover" file, but because the milliseconds in<BR>
the leftover is *earlier* than the launch date, it is ignored. It will only<BR>
read files written into the "watched" folder *after* the launch date.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2" STYLE="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #FFFFFF"><BR>
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The time stamp seems logical- but here's my question: how does a second instance of the application know what file to look for? That is, if the file is already there from the first instance which was launched hours ago, how can it tell the difference between that file and a crashed one. Without using inter-application communication of course =).<BR>
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Or am I missing something?<BR>
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Brian<BR>
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