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nima66

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In my search I found the following link:

Check if an application is running (Solved)

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...
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But the problem is that the user can rerun the application with run_debug.bat.
How can I make it so that the run_debug.bat file is not taken into account when creating the setup file?
 
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Solved with the following code:

B4X: 
Source: Objects\temp\build\*; DestDir: {app}; Flags: ignoreversion recursesubdirs; Excludes: run_debug.bat
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aeric

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There are other threads discussing similar question. Hope they helps.

How to check if a 'service' is running?

I read a very interesting post that shows how to use a non-UI B4j program in Windows service However, it could happen that the program interrupts its functioning for various reasons The question is: how to create a second B4J program to test whether a Windows service is running and, if not...
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Detect a Previous Instance of a running B4J App

Is that any way to detect if a previous instance of a B4J App is running? In VB6, you could do this with "If App.PreviousInstance then ......" Just wondering if there is something similar in B4J, or a way to determine if the JAR file is already in execution. Thanks!
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aeric

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nima66 said:
How can I make it so that the run_debug.bat file is not taken into account when creating the setup file?
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Just delete this file before you compile InnoSetup script.
 
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Thanks
I had checked these threads.
 
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aeric said:
Just delete this file before you compile InnoSetup script.
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I even modified the InstallerScript.iss file to ignore the run_debug.bat file, but it didn't help.

B4X: 
Source: Objects\temp\build\*; DestDir: {app}; Flags: ignoreversion recursesubdirs; Excludes: Objects\temp\build\run_debug.bat
 
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Solved with the following code:

B4X: 
Source: Objects\temp\build\*; DestDir: {app}; Flags: ignoreversion recursesubdirs; Excludes: run_debug.bat
 
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nima66 said:
Inno Setup will start automatically immediately.
There is no opportunity to remove the desired file from the files list in InnoSetup.
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Do you set an automated build steps that set the InnoSetup run immediately?
By default, Build Standalone Package doesn't start InnoSetup automatically.
 
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