multiple instances of standalone under Windows

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Chipp Walters wrote:
>
>> We've had some discussions on this list before, and the short answer 
>> is "not
>> easily." You can do things like write a file when you open and delete 
>> it
>> when you close --then check to see if it is there when it launches 
>> again,
>> but this has obvious problems.
>
> Polling a directory for a file, while suboptimal, is pretty fast and 
> would
> seem to get the job done, no?

Could you run into problems if your app crashed and wasn't able to 
clean up after itself?  The next time your app launched the file would 
still be there and your app would shut itself down.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com