Hi Cubic I used CiaOnlyOne and then freed TCiaOnlyOne at the end of my OnShow routine and this seems to do what I want. Wayne
Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> on Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 2:57 a.m. +0000 wrote: >> 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 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
