Thanks Fabien Bodard (good thought) & Johny Provoost. I tried Johny's
solution and it did work, with modifications. I am using Gambas 2.23 and the
following code did the trick. (The program is called "Barcode")
Public Sub Form_Open()
DIM sOutput AS String
'Check if the program not already s
You can use a .Lock file.
if this file exist for example in ~/.cache/myapp dir then say to the user
that the app is already running ... destroy this file when quitting the app
if the app crash before so the file still exist.. just say to the user if
he is sure to not have launched another time...
Op 07-11-12 12:12, Cogier schreef:
> Can you tell me the best way to spot that there is another instance of the
> same Gambas program running at the same time.
>
> I have users who sometimes start the same program written in Gambas twice
> and I would like the 2nd instance to pop up a message sayi
Can you tell me the best way to spot that there is another instance of the
same Gambas program running at the same time.
I have users who sometimes start the same program written in Gambas twice
and I would like the 2nd instance to pop up a message saying that there is
already a copy of the progr
