Re: How to avoid multiple instances of a program in NT and 95?

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From: Mario Schlesinger
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00

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Someday (Mon, 03 Feb 97 10:24:56 GMT) someone
(Alois.Buecherl@terraSat.de (Alois Buecherl)) wrote:

>I've been striving for so long now to find a SAVE way to start only one 
>instance of my C++ program under Windows NT and 95. As you might recall, this 
>used to be that easy in Windows 3.1 using the prevInstance variable. Now this 
>option is gone.

Most of the time, I'm just going the easy way:

hWnd = FindWindow( szNameOfMyMainWindowClass, NULL );
if ( hWnd )  {
	BringWindowToTop( hWnd );
	SetForegroundWindow( hWnd );
	};



see 'ya
	/\/\ario


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From: schlesinger@augsburg.baynet.de (Mario Schlesinger)
Subject: Re: How to avoid multiple instances of a program in NT and 95?
Date: 1997/02/06
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