Hi, If you are going to run your program on Linux/Unix, you can use DBus and it's feature to assign unique name to connected client; example of this you can find at:
http://sundaram.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/single-instance-apps-using-d-bus/ However, if you are thinking to make it OS inferior or simply to omit DBus, you can create hidden so called 'lock' file at known location when application starts (e.g. /tmp/.foo.lock) and delete it when application quits; the same application will check if that file exists and if does, report how one instance is already running. Sanel On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:10:11AM -0800, Gonzalo Garramuno wrote: > I would like my application to have only one instance of it running at a > time. However I am unsure how to implement this. > If the user opens another instance the contents of what it opened should go > to the already opened instance. > As an example, I would put emacs. > > How would I go about coding this? Pipes? Sockets? None of the above. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
