Re: Multiple instances of an app open?
Re: Multiple instances of an app open?
- Subject: Re: Multiple instances of an app open?
- From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:30:32 -0400
I've noticed that if you launch an application from the command line,
it will not "merge up" with an already running instance. Try it for
yourself and you will get as many instances as you desire.
Based on that fact, if I was trying to commit the UI crime you are
trying to commit :) , I would probably look into making a wrapper app
bundle that, upon being launched, manually invoked the executable of
the real application held inside of it, and immediately quit. This
should be enough to cause the Finder to repeatedly allow launches of
the app, though you might have some trouble if the user tried to fire
off two as fast as they can click...
Daniel
On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
Is it possible to open multiple instances of a Cocoa app?
I know you are going to have something to say about this. The app
is a windows app, that I've ported. They've done it in such a way
that if they wanted to make it multiple document, it would have to
be rebuilt from the ground up. Tons of global variables for just
about everything. Even stuff that should be passed on the stack is
made global, for no reason I can see.
So there is no way this app can be made multiple document based.
Is there any way multiple instances of the app can be opened then?
I know this is wrong and bad, but I'd just like to know. I'd like
to do it in a graceful way for the user, not ask them to duplicate
the app in the Finder :)
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