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

Hernán Morales hernan.morales at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 00:49:51 UTC 2008


http://huddledmasses.org/run-only-one-copy-of-an-application/

2008/6/17 Markus Gälli <gaelli at emergent.de>:

> 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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