On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:50 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 21:44 +0100, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: <snip> > Since arg parsing/handling is different for single-instance apps > (certain kinds of arg don't make sense for instances after the first, > such as --display) gtk could offer a gtk_init() alternative perhaps. The > API would let an app register a "new instance" callback essentially, > which would be called when the app is first launched, and also if it's > launched again and forwarded to an existing instance. > > Something like: > > int > new_launch_callback(int argc, char **argv) > { > > } > > int main(int argc, char **argv) > { > gtk_set_instance_handler(new_launch_callback); > > return gtk_invoke_instance(&argc, &argv); > } > > If the app is already running, then the callback is not invoked in this > process but instead invoked again in the existing process. If the app is > not already running, callback is invoked in the current process.
Yes, this is a very good idea, and allows the window to be focused or refreshed, or whatever. > There are a variety of complexities, but this is a pretty longstanding > thing nobody has ever fixed... every app is hand-rolling some wacky > solution. A generic solution would be the best way. I really don't want to invent the wheel for such simple functionality. Thanks, Richard. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list