re: Background Color on Win XP - Undocumented Feature!

2002-09-17 Thread miscdas
On Saturday, September 14, 2002, at 11:23 AM, Ken Ray wrote: But apparently you've hit on an undocumented feature of MC - the ability to create a comma-delimited item list in a variable without having to use an ampersand for concatenation. See page 469 of Metacard User's Guide

Re: Confirming a Save command

2002-09-17 Thread Shari
I've tested this procedure out, and have found that on the Macintosh platform, if the stack being saved is locked, the save command produces a copy of the stack with the same name and followed by a tilde. One also gets a message in the result variable which says Can't open stack file. If you

[ANN]: VAPP, V4RB, V4MD, V4WS, VSDK, VCSDK, VXCMD 1.9.6 beta16

2002-09-17 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
Hi Everybody, I have made a lots of *Valentina house* clean up work here, In particular I have convert all product projects to CodeWarrior 8 format, polish Macho versions of products, ... Now you can download 1.9.6 b16 for most products. * FIXED crash of V4RB on Jaguar. * FIXED LIKE problem

Looking For Suggestions

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Rossi
I've got a standalone that needs to run on Windows as a single instance (no multiple instances of the same app). I'm looking for suggestions on how to prevent duplicate launches of the same app (the app may also be installed in more than one location on the same machine). I'm familiar with the

Re: Looking For Suggestions

2002-09-17 Thread Robert Chiasson
- Original Message - From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:36 PM Subject: Looking For Suggestions I've got a standalone that needs to run on Windows as a single instance (no multiple instances of the same app). I'm looking for

Re: Looking For Suggestions

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Rossi
I've got a standalone that needs to run on Windows as a single instance (no multiple instances of the same app). I'm looking for suggestions on how to prevent duplicate launches of the same app (the app may also be installed in more than one location on the same machine). I'm

Re: Looking For Suggestions

2002-09-17 Thread Yennie
There may be something more elegant, but how about a time-stamped file? Could your app just stamp the current time into the file once per minute? A second app could then check if the file is "alive" by checking the time contained within. One other trick that might work: what if the main app opens

Re: Looking For Suggestions

2002-09-17 Thread Robert Chiasson
Works for me. -- Robert - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:50 PM Subject: Re: Looking For Suggestions There may be something more elegant, but how about a time-stamped file? Could your app just stamp the

Re: Looking For Suggestions

2002-09-17 Thread andu
--On Tuesday, September 17, 2002 16:36:09 -0700 Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a standalone that needs to run on Windows as a single instance (no multiple instances of the same app). I'm looking for suggestions on how to prevent duplicate launches of the same app (the app

RE: Looking For Suggestions

2002-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Scott, Don't know if this helps but executing mem /p from a dos window will return all running programs. So, you might be able to run a batch file which prints out the running programs and check it from there.. -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL