Please tell us you success story when you done For me i am using SimpleIPC https://github.com/parmaja/miniedit/blob/master/source/gui/mne.lpr
look at AnotherInstance and MainUnit.pas Works good in Windows but not tested in Linux. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk>wrote: > 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 > -- I am using last revision of Lazarus, FPC 2.6 on Windows XP SP3 Best Regards Zaher Dirkey
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