Find Previous instance of Application?

[Greenu Sharma]

is it possible to find the previous instance of my embedded vb 3 application?

Please help me

[poobal]

Hi Greenu Sharma !

I think you can use App

object.
App.PrevInstance

will give the solution for you.

I hope this may help you.

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[Cimperiali]

If it has a window fith fixed caption, use findWindow Api (app.previnstance works only in same workspace/dir of startup)

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[Greenu Sharma]

Hi,
Actually am working on embedded Vb 3 in which the app.prevInstance is not working properly.

My mission is to avoid duplicate instance of a particular exe.
when i tried to open twice the same exe the windows CE is giving an error "cannot open file "

I too want the same thing but i want to suppress this message box .

how can i do this ?

please help me

Greenu

[myron]

I just curious, is FindWindow the best solution for this kind of case?

[cjard]

myron; this question was asked 3 years ago, about a pretty much defunct VB3 ...

surely there were other more recent articles you could have searched?

FindWindow finds you a window starting with that exact text.. I have a module that searches for windows starting with some certain text, but still it's not totally reliable because if you have an Explorer window open showing some folder name that is same as your app then it thinks the Explorer folder is your app.. you can look in the process list instead for EXE named the same as yours..