> Wayne Roser wrote: > but I'm wondering if you really want to prevent multiple copies
I am interested in this too. Maybe the best idea will be to allow two copies of the program when the user manually started both of them (for example double click on the desktop icon) and to close the rest of the copies if the program automatically started when the user clicked a file that is associated with the program. I think that checking the command line parameters when the application start is enough to find out which case is running. But when one application is closed it must send the parameters to the main application (the one that won't be closed). Anyway, maybe this is not the case for Rainer. Wayne Roser wrote: > Hi Rainer > I use TCiaOnlyOne but I'm wondering if you really want to prevent multiple > copies or just prevent > "a bunch being opened all at once when the user doesn't want a bunch open". > That's not something > I'm doing so far but I think I will implement that sometime soon. > Wayne > > Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> on Monday, 24 September > 2007 at 7:13 a.m. > +0000 wrote: > >> What's the best (easiest effective) way to prevent multiple copies of a >> single Delphi program from attemtping to execute simultaneously? >> >> The problem is that users are double clicking to launch the program >> (when Control Panel is configured for single clicks), and then when >> things aren't happening fast enough, they click twice again, and again, >> and again, until there are 12 or more copies of the program trying to >> launch ... and none of them are getting off the ground. My users don't >> seem able to learn patience, so I need to help them out. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Rainer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] >> http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
