Re: My app's window class
David,
I've used PJ's class in a couple of programs and it is easy to implement and
seems to work well including integration with the WM_COPYDATA paradigm:
http://www.naughter.com/sinstance.html
There are uses for single document programs (like notepad for example), but
I think these days most programs that are intended to work with multiple
files or databases are really MDI even if they look like each document is a
window like the MS Office products.
Tom
"David Webber" <dave@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> wrote in message
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I have heard this said before. I used to use it to prevent two
instances running, but looking again, I see that I have stopped doing
that.
Forget when, forget why, (I think it always worked) but now I allow two
instances.
However *if* there is a file name on the command line to open, I do use
FindWindow and pass the name to the first already-running instance found
with WM_COPYDATA, and then abort the launch of the new one.
The assumption is that if someone double clicks on a document icon and the
program is already running, then he doesn't want a new instance for every
document.
I guess in this case it is necessary to use FindWindow so as to know where
to send the WM_COPYDATA.
Dave
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