MisterX wrote:
Rev still can't open stacks normally on PCs when you double click on it's documents - the stacks or your application's stack-documents...

Win32 always opens another session of Rev...

How does this differ from Notepad or Internet Explorer?
...
...  look at how ....ALL..... other programs do open many docs
into one app session
...
UltraEdit, Photoshop, CodeWarrior, the Flash IDE, etc, etc, etc all work as
expected... Sorry to contradict you again but it's more of a rule of thumb
or a common sense standard, or a feature design or a programmer's choice.

Which is it?

About half the apps on my Wintel box launch into multiple instances, and the other half into multiple instances. The oddest of the lot was MS' Address Book: it opens multiple instances, but apparently maintains a real-time connection between them, as adding records to one causes the other to update almost instantly.

I agree it would be nice to have an option to allow Rev apps to open a single instance when a document is double-clicked. I couldn't find your request for that, but I'll happily add my vote to it if you'll provide the Bugzilla request number.

My point was simply that what Rev does is the default behavior on Windows (and if memory serves on Linux as well).

Evidently it's possible to alter this behavior to have documents opened in an already-running instance, but it's not a simple thing to do.

In fact, if the combined efforts of Ken and myself are any indication, it's not even simple to find out how to do it. The best we could turn up are workaround snippets from third parties; we could not turn up a Microsoft recommendation for implementing single-instance apps, and the issue appears to be avoided altogether in the Microsoft HIG.

If you have a URL to a Microsoft recommendation in their code examples and/or HIG please add it to your Bugzilla feature request.

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 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Media Corporation
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