What about just looking for your app in the openProcesses list called from the freeware command line utility:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pslist.shtml If your app is there, then shut yourself down. Seems easy enough, unless I'm missing something. -Chipp > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Trevor > DeVore > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:04 PM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: multiple instances of standalone under Windows > > > On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > Trevor DeVore wrote: > > > >> On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >>> > >>> Polling a directory for a file, while suboptimal, is pretty fast and > >>> would > >>> seem to get the job done, no? > >> > >> Could you run into problems if your app crashed and wasn't able to > >> clean up after itself? The next time your app launched the file would > >> still be there and your app would shut itself down. > > > > I had thathappen with a CGI. I changed it so the file contains a > > timestamp; > > if more than 10 seconds old it deletes it and moves on. > > > > With desktop apps its more complicated, since the length of a session > > is > > less predictable. > > > > Could a local UDP or TCP call be used for that instead? > > It seems like this would be the best method available right now. > > > -- > Trevor DeVore > Blue Mango Multimedia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
