Re: Limiting to one instance
Wismerhill <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:24:55 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.games.devel.windows |
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--===============1481062669== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_13883_1906871.1155803095237" ------=_Part_13883_1906871.1155803095237 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Some info here: http://www.ddj.com/dept/windows/184416853 2006/8/15, Research <[email protected]>: > > Is the preferred method of not allowing multiple instances of a game to > run > at the same to use named mutexes via CreateMutex and test for it's > exeistence on startup? > > I found an example on MSDN, but it seems targeted at .NET applications. > I'm > not sure if there's an easier way to prevent mutliple launches for a Win32 > app. > > Thanks, > Brett Bibby > GameBrains > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Gamedevlists-windows mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gamedevlists-windows > Archives: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=555 > ------=_Part_13883_1906871.1155803095237 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Some info here: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/dept/windows/184416853">http://www.ddj.com/dept/windows/184416853</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/8/15, Research <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] </a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is the preferred method of not allowing multiple instances of a game to run<br> at the same to use named mutexes via CreateMutex and test for it's<br>exeistence on startup?<br><br>I found an example on MSDN, but it seems targeted at .NET applications. I'm<br>not sure if there's an easier way to prevent mutliple launches for a Win32 <br>app.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Brett Bibby<br>GameBrains<br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?<br>Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier <br>Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo<br><a href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642">http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 </a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gamedevlists-windows mailing list<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gamedevlists-windows"> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gamedevlists-windows</a><br>Archives:<br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=555">http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=555</a><br></blockquote> </div><br> ------=_Part_13883_1906871.1155803095237-- --===============1481062669== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 --===============1481062669== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Gamedevlists-windows mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gamedevlists-windows Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=555 --===============1481062669==--