On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:18:53PM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>I can explain you how it works on Windows, > > > >Yes please. > > You can use a mutex to detect the running process and a window message > to have the existing process start a new document.
Windows has system-global mutexes. A very limited number for that matter. And you btter make really sure your app releases them even when it dies unexpectedly. Unix does not have that. I doubt Macs have that. Andre'