I'm running a system with dual 17" monitors, and found that I can run 2 copies of
MapInfo & my MBX, each
on it's own monitor. I have some real time data coming in, and both screens are at
different scales. It works
well, with one small problem left - I want the 2nd (and subsequent) copies to miss out
doing some of the
tasks like running the external programs, etc. I can think of 2 different ways to do
it:
1) Renaming one copy of the MBX to a different name, and detect the name of the MBX
internally. I could
then bypass the bits I don't want to run. I see in MapBasic there is a reference to
mapinfo.MBApplication,
with a .Name, but this appears to be something that needs to be called from another
app, probably with
integrated mapping. Is there any way to detect the name of the MBX that is running?
2) Have both MBXs with the same name, with some way to detect whether a previous
instance of the app
is running? If the MBX detected that it was the 2nd instance, then it would bypass
some bits. I can't see
how to do this though.
There are hacks like having the first instance create a text file on startup & delete
it on closing, so the 2nd
instance can look for the text file, but I was hoping for something a little more
"elegant" :-)
Dave
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