>I'm trying to find a way to be sure that only one instance of my foxpro application is running. So when i start the application a second time, i want to show the user a message.
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>Ok I know there is an api call witch compares the captions of running application, but I don't whant to use that because an other application or a mail message can have the same caption.
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>Thanks.
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>Gerben.

I use the one here: http://nbcsoftware.com/Mutex.html . Thanks to Nigel Coates for this one.