Looking For Suggestions

[LiangTyan Fui]

On 9/19/02 3:55 PM, "FlexibleLearning at aol.com" <FlexibleLearning at aol.com>
wrote:

> To prevent multiple instances, I have in the past simply written a file to
> disk to check against on launch and a simple warning message for the user.
> This allows user-over-ride in the case of a crash and thus a spurious file;
> most times it's enough to advise the program is already running and/or bring
> it to the front. Low tech solution.

Try this low tech solution:

on openstack
  open file "C:/program1.txt" for write
  if the result is not empty then quit metacard
end openstack

on closestack
  close file "C:/program1.txt"
end closestack

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