Preventing multiple instances of a Windows app - still a problem

[Mike Bonner]

wow. I can tell how long i've been away from a windows command line. Didn't
know about tasklist. Thanks!



On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> I see. I have been using:
>
> function programs
>     if the platform is "MacOS" then -- only OSX!
>          put shell("ps -xcw") into myList
>          put offset("COMMAND",myList) into myColPos
>          repeat for each line myLine in myList
>               put char myColPos to -1 of myLine & cr after myNewList
>          end repeat
>          filter myNewList without "(*"
>          return line 2 to -1 of myNewList
>     else if the platform is "Win32" then
>          put line 4 to -1 of shell("tasklist") into myList
>          repeat for each line myLine in myList
>               put word 1 of myLine & cr after myNewList
>          end repeat
>          return line 1 to -2 of myNewList
>     else
>          return empty
>     end if
> end programs
>
> but I am not sure that this works on Win XP Home for example.
>
> Graham, could you post your current VBScript or provide a link to that
> script in the discussion of May?
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> On 4 dec 2011, at 16:37, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > Not sure the app in question is an lc app. Doesn't it only apply if thats
> > the case? If it is an lc app, then yeah relaunch is perfect.
> >
>
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