Hi Graham, 2011/12/4 Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com>
> > Last May I got lots of good advice from this list (specially from Mike > Bonner) about how to deal with this problem, and it came down to running a > little VB script that ran through the open processes on the machine and > killed any duplicate of the program in question: this is not the absolutely > ideal solution, which would be to tell the LiveCode script that an instance > already exists so that the launch won't be needed, but it is workable. > Except for one show-stopper: in the example above I chose 'Troubling App' > as a name, **because it has a space in it**. It turns out the VB script I > was given worked fine for 'Firefox' for example, but didn't work for any > program name with a space in it - this despite my enclosing the statement > referring to the program in quotes, as in: > Did you tried this way: 1) get "tasklist /NH /FI " & quote & "IMAGENAME eq firefox.exe" & quote put shell( IT ) -- or process the shell() output 2) get "tasklist /NH /FI " & quote & "IMAGENAME eq Troubling\ App.exe" & quote put shell( IT ) Solution 1, I'm sure it works Solution 2, didn't test it. HTH, Thierry _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
