[squeak-dev] Re: [Question] How to ensure a single windows vm instance?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Jun 18 04:13:07 UTC 2008


Hi Markus -

I've finally gotten around to fixing the fullscreen problem. Try the 
latest VM and see if that helps:

   http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.7-bin.zip

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Markus Gälli wrote:
> Dear folks
> 
> I've developed a game in Squeak, mainly used on windows.
> Due to some bug in the recent windows vm  [1] I needed to fall back to 
> an old VM which does not provide a splash screen at the beginning.
> As a consequence children playing this game might start the vm more than 
> one time -- not getting any feedback if it has already started -- which 
> leads to some nasty consequences.
> 
> So: I guess I miss something obvious, but can someone point me to an 
> easy way to ensure only a single squeak instance on windows?
> I guess asking some registry or elsewhere for running (squeak) processes 
> might help, any pointers in this direction?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Markus
> 
> [1] http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6818
> 
> 




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