B4J Question Check if an application is running (Solved)

[Colin Evans]

Hi Is there a way of checking if an application is already running to stop the user from running a second, and if so switch to the program and make the window active?

in VB6 I would use the following to stop the program from running a duplicate

If App.PrevInstance = True Then
   MsgBox "Your Application Is Already Running", vbInformation + vbOKOnly, "Application Already Running"
   Unload Me
   End
End If

 

[MarcoRome]

[JavaPackager] Single Instance

Hello, I switched to using JavaPackager, but I can't find how to run a single instance of my application. Before I could do it with Launch4J. Idea anyone? Regards Jmon.

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[behnam_tr]

B4J single instance

I wanted to limit my app to running as a single instance, in both Windows and Linux. Several solutions for this single instance problem have been posted, but usually do not include running in Linux. Erel made a few suggestions in one of his posts. One of these was to use an external file as a...

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[Colin Evans]

behnam_tr Many thanks this is perfect, just what I needed