>>Hello Group,
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>>We have a user who keeps starting the filetrac program and watching to see its old icon in the tray. This isn't going to happen until I learn how to make the new filetrac program put the old filetrac icon in the tray.
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>Jim,
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>Do you mean preventing a second instance of the application running? Are you talking about the taskbar or the System Tray?
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>If you mean preventing a normal executable from running twice, there are a number of ways. Use the FindWindow() API call or something like my Is_Run32 program from the download section to determine if the window already exists. You could set up the application as a DDE server and test to see if it's active. Ed Rauh suggests using the CreateEvent() API call. I think if you'll check the FAQs you'll find that. I wrote an article for FoxPro Advisor (Nov., 1998) that uses CreateMutex().
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>Some of this (inlcuding the DDE implementation) you can find in the FAQs or download sections.
Hi George,

Yep I meant the systray, had to take a minute to figure which one was which.

I would like to prevent a normal executable from running twice.

Thank you for your help

Best regards
Jim