Hi, I'm posting it here, but it is not a Lazarus question, but a general GUI app (created with FPC) question.
Example of what I want to achieve. Say I have gEdit (Gnome editor) open and have a file loaded. Now if I am in a console and type 'gedit someotherfile.txt' [or double click a text file in Nautilus], it doesn't start a new instance of gedit, the existing instance opens the new file - gedit supports multiple opened files in a tabbed view. How do they accomplish this? I would like to implement something like that for fpGUI, and it must work under all fpGUI supported "desktop" platforms. I know under Windows you can check if an instance of an application is already running, and stop your current instance. Still not sure how to transfer the "open a new file" action to that existing instance. As for Linux, FreeBSD etc, I have no clue how to do it. For those not in the know, fpGUI is based directly on GDI or XLib (not Qt, GTK etc). Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
