At Sun, 19 May 2013 16:10:43 -0800, Zelah Hutchinson wrote: > I am curious as to whether it would be possible to run multiple > instances of a compiled Racket program. If so, then how may I do > this? When I try to run the program twice by double clicking in Mac > OS, I still only get one running process. This seems like a very > serious limitation. Is there a way around this?
Racket GUI programs on Mac OS X behave like other Mac OS X GUI programs, which means that double-clicking the icon moves a previously started instance to the front --- but also that you can start multiple instances by using the command line. Here's one way: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57564478-263/how-to-open-multiple-instances-of-an-application-in-os-x/ I don't know why there isn't a GUI way to do that in Mac OS X, but below is a little Racket program that you can turn into an application and use to launch a new instance of any Mac application. ---------------------------------------- #lang racket/gui (define f (get-file "Choose an Application" #f #f #f #f '(packages) '(("*.app" "Application")))) (system* "/usr/bin/open" "-n" "-a" f) ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
