Hi Daniel -
At 8:41 AM -0500 10/21/05, you wrote:
(multi-instance is certainly the non-standard usage for Projectors
Not if you develop apps! In Windows, any time one opens an rtf
file, one gets a new instance of WordPad. Same with Word, Excel,
etc.
please see below
And even if one opens new documents into tabs within the current
document or replace the current open document, the only way on
Windows to know that another file associated with that application
was double clicked is to allow the new instance to launch and to
then communicate with the already open instance.
Perhaps what I said wasn't clear -
I know that multi-instance behavior is the Windows-platform default
for applications.
The example applications you have mentioned are all multi-document
applications, so there's really no need for a additional instance of
the application to be launched when one double clicks on a their data
files - those apps could just as easily open an new document window
containing that file.
To experience the behavior I'm detailing, just double click a few
word docs on a Mac - you don't get N copies of the application
running; bogging down the OS.
Director isn't (multi-document) - it should do a 'replace' & it
already knows how to do this - go to movie causes a Save dialog for
the 'jump from' movie if necessary.
I'm hinting that Windows has chosen the rarely needed case as their
default behavior & that Director could chosen it's default setting to
correct this for the end user since it's atypical for more than 1
copy of a Projector (or the Director application) to be needed to be
run at once.
That way we wouldn't need to work around the issue (the workaround =
what started this thread).
hth
-Buzz
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