Check if Standalone is Already Open

[Andre Garzia]

On Nov 9, 2004, at 7:11 PM, Derek Bump wrote:

> Any way to check if a standalone is already open in Windows?  And 
> then, any way to send data to that standalone via the Windows Shell so 
> that the already open program will open the file that the Shell tells 
> it to?
>

I use a token file. I write a token file to the stacks folder with the 
time the app is started, the app update this file every 5 seconds, when 
the app quits, it deletes the file, when it launches it check for the 
presence of the token, if it exists, it check to see if it is more than 
5 secs old (this mean that the app force quited an left a stray file), 
if it is less then 5 secs old, we have a running instance.

Cheers
andre



> I would like to find a workaround so my users won't end up with 20 
> copies of my program running at the same time.
>
>
> Derek Bump
> Dreamscape Software
> ____________________________________________
> Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress
> http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>
-- 
Andre Alves Garzia ð 2004
Soap Dog Studios - BRAZIL
http://studio.soapdog.org