Single instance application

Bruno Luong — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:30:13 -0500

Hello,

I would like to compile and deploy a MATLAB stand-alone
application under Windows that:

- can be run only with a single instance,
- this unique instance will be brought to the foreground
whenever my application is called (or its associated fileis
clicked by the user),
- Successive command-line inputs must be captured by the
(single) instance (so that appropriate action will be
performed).

How can I do this?

Many thanks,

Bruno Luong

Re: Single instance application

Bruno Luong — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:19:26 -0500

"Bruno Luong" <brunoluong@yahoo.com> wrote in message

I have finally managed to create a SIA (single instance
application) of my GUI program. It's not very simple. I have
to write a wrapper program in Visual C that calls my MATLAB
function in the form of DLL-compiled. To check the number of
instances running, I use Mutex (Mutual exclusion) object; to
communicate arguments between two instances I have to use
the message sending and peaking mechanism, after creating a
so called "message-only" window.

Not sure it is clear, but I manage somehow to make it works.

Hopefully Mathworks will provide extra tools to do this in
the next version of the compiler.

Bruno

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