https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=66 SyMenu - General discussion & questions - 'One Instance Only' behavior - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 16 May 2012 16:07:38 GMT Wed, 16 May 2012 16:07:38 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=66 Consider that every application starts at least one process and this makes possible to check if it is already started, but only some application works with an active window.
Think about to SyMenu for example. During its activity SyMenu sleeps on your task bar and pop up when you call it.
In case similar to this I should call the application to try to put in foreground its main windows but what if I can't find one... And this is only an problem but there are others.

SyMenu to accomplish "the one instance only" feature currently works checking the process list and trying to find a process originated from the executable file your are trying to launch.
Consider that this method is not 100% safe because there are some programs that uses an executable file to launch another one (some portable programs for example). In this case SyMenu can't check the existence of the process and relaunches the program again.]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 16:07:38 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=66 I just found SyMenu and it looks great so far!
However, I have one question - if 'One Instance Only' is checked and you try to start the application the second time, an error is shown - which I find not very useful. Wouldn't it be better to just switch to that application instead, without any error message ? In this case, you could start/switch to that application faster and easier.
Thank you.]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 15:52:00 GMT