Does anyone have a way to check if another instance of a standalone is
already running, and if so close the one that was just opened? I have an
application running under Windows and need to keep the user from opening
multiple instances of it. Is there a way to do this?
I've tried using 'if there
Hi Chris,
Not sure if this will help, but you might check out:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
there are a number of process utilities there.
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
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 dir
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
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 01:45 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:
Does anyone have a way to check if another instance of a standalone is
already running, and if so close the one that was just opened?
Try 'accept' on some obscure port. If it fails, assume that another
app is running. (Immediate
Trevor DeVore wrote:
> 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 c
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> On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Richar
On Jan 29, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
What about just looking for your app in the openProcesses list called
from
the freeware command line utility:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pslist.shtml
If your app is there, then shut yourself down.
Seems easy enough, unless I'm m
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 02:19 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
Does anyone have a way to check if another instance of a standalone is
already running, and if so close the one that was just opened?
Try 'accept' on some obscure port. If it fails, assume that another
app is running. (Immediately clo
Funny it works fine from here. Try again?
-Chipp
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> Subject: Re: multiple instances of sta
--- Chris Sheffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have a way to check if another instance
> of a standalone is
> already running, and if so close the one that was
> just opened? I have an
> application running under Windows and need to keep
> the user from opening
> multiple instances o
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Subject: RE: multiple instances of standalone under Windows
What about just looking for your app in the openProcesses list called from
the freeware command line utility:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pslist.shtml
If your app is there, then shut yourself
pment
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To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: multiple instances of standalone under Windows
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 01:45 PM, C
On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:18 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Funny it works fine from here. Try again?
Weird, in Safari I get the custom page not found error. If I use
Explorer then it works fine.
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On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 09:13 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions, Dar, but I think maybe not understand the
'accept' thing. It sounds like it should work, but I'm not quite
getting
it. You don't by chance have a code sample do you? How will I know
if the
accept comm
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
constant lockPort = "46144"
I think one of the weaknesses of the 'accept' method for checking for
multiple apps is the potential of collisions here. The other problem
is that this will not work if tcp/ip networking is not set up for som
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