>>>Has anyone ever run across a way to determine if an application is already running and prevent it from being started a 2nd or 3rd or .... time. We have some users that forget that they have minimized an app and start it again...causes some interesting problems.
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>>>Thanks,
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>>Bill,
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>>I couple of years ago, I wrote an article on this for FoxPro Advisor. Check out Create Single-Instance Applications in the November, 1998 issue. Unfortunately, it is no longer available on-line.
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>George,
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>What's wrong with Ed's approach (see API section CreateEvent)? Seems to work fine.

Nothing really. In fact, if I recall correctly, I said a the time that it maybe a better solution. However, having said that, I should point out that the solution I present is the one recommended in the Platform SDK. When all is said and done, I believe in following the guidelines expressed there.