On Tuesday 25 January 2011 06:57:48 pm Lex Trotman wrote: > 2011/1/26 Krzysztof Żelechowski <[email protected]>: > > Dnia wtorek, 25 stycznia 2011 o 14:27:18 Randy Kramer napisał(a): > >> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 04:04:53 am Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: > >> > Dnia wtorek, 25 stycznia 2011 o 00:43:11 Lex Trotman napisał(a): > >> > > Your description of single instance, multi window is correct, > >> > > yes there is a slightly enhanced risk, but IMH(unbiased)O > >> > > compared to the problems with multiple instances this is > >> > > small, see my scenario on another post on this thread. No > >> > > software can prevent the same file in two instances being > >> > > different. With a single instance all windows see the same > >> > > (possibly modified) version of the file. > >> > > >> > Open Office, for example, can: all other instances are either > >> > detached (as in stationery) or read-only. > >> > >> Krzysztof, > >> > >> Is that on Windows or Linux? (I can imagine differences between > >> them, and rarely use Open Office myself.) > > > > I have seen that on Windows. > > On Linux OOO is a single instance multiple window application. And I > can't get it to load the same document in more than one window > anyway, it just raises the window where the document is already open?
Yes, I forgot about that behavior (that I've seen in other apps)--sometimes quite useful, sometimes very annoying. Randy Kramer _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
