Looking For Suggestions

[Ken Ray]

Actually, it doesn't, unfortunately (at least in Win XP). The only programs
it shows are things like IO, MOUSE, MSDOS, and REDIR (not Acrobat, Outlook
Express,etc.).

You might want to check out the SysInternals site; they have a bunch of
command-line utilities you can sue. Here's a link to a command-line utility
called 'handle' that you can probably run through shell():

For Windows NT/200/ME:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml

And here looks like one for 95/98/ME:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml

For Windows developers, the SysInternals site has a bunch of good stuff...

Scott, if you get this to work well, let us know how you did it...

:-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:15 PM
Subject: RE: Looking For Suggestions


> Scott,
>
> Don't know if this helps but
>
> executing
>
> mem /p
>
> from a dos window will return all running programs.
> So, you might be able to run a batch file which prints out the running
> programs and check it from there..
>
> -Chipp
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
> > [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Scott Rossi
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:36 PM
> > To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> > Subject: Looking For Suggestions
> >
> >
> > I've got a standalone that needs to run on Windows as a single
> > instance (no
> > multiple instances of the same app).  I'm looking for suggestions
> > on how to
> > prevent duplicate launches of the same app (the app may also be
> > installed in
> > more than one location on the same machine).
> >
> > I'm familiar with the open apps function of the EXT DLL, but I'm trying
to
> > avoid use of this since it makes my apps unstable.  I've also
> > toyed with the
> > idea of writing an "app busy" message to the registry or a temp
> > file on the
> > drive, but I can't figure out how to determine if the app that created
the
> > message is running
> >
> > As far as I know, MC has no built-in way to get a list of open processes
> > other than those it has already launched.
> >
> > Searching the Web, I came across this document -- might there be
> > some way to
> > use the code here via the shell or shell("start"...) function?
> >
> > http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0007.htm
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Scott Rossi
> > Creative Director
> > Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
> > -----
> > E: scott at tactilemedia.com
> > W: http://www.tactilemedia.com
> >
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