Compiling for Windows

[Scott Raney]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 9/28/02 12:24 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
> 
> > I've encountered two issues in making my Windows App.
> > 
> > The first one is doing something about Window's propensity to open a second
> > copy of my App if it's double-clicked again after a first copy is already
> > running (instead of the Mac's more reasonable approach of bringing the first
> > copy forward). 
> 
> This comes up on the list so often...Scott, is there any way that 
> MetaCard could help handle this situation? Any Windows property it could 
> report or some other way to prevent it?

I think what is required here is an attitude adjustment rather than
some sort of engineering change.  Repeat after me: "Windows is not
MacOS".  Starting up multiple copies of an app is the the way it's
*supposed* to work if that's what the user wants.  If you've designed
your app such that it breaks when you start up multiple copies, you
should probably work on fixing your app rather than trying to change
the way Windows (or UNIX) works ;-)
  Regards,
    Scott

> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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