[fpc-pascal] File Association and opening with already running app

[Zaher Dirkey]

Please tell us you success story when you done

For me i am using SimpleIPC
https://github.com/parmaja/miniedit/blob/master/source/gui/mne.lpr

look at AnotherInstance and MainUnit.pas


Works good in Windows but not tested in Linux.



On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm posting it here, but it is not a Lazarus question, but a general GUI
> app (created with FPC) question.
>
> Example of what I want to achieve. Say I have gEdit (Gnome editor) open
> and have a file loaded. Now if I am in a console and type 'gedit
> someotherfile.txt' [or double click a text file in Nautilus], it doesn't
> start a new instance of gedit, the existing instance opens the new file
> - gedit supports multiple opened files in a tabbed view.
>
> How do they accomplish this? I would like to implement something like
> that for fpGUI, and it must work under all fpGUI supported "desktop"
> platforms.
>
> I know under Windows you can check if an instance of an application is
> already running, and stop your current instance. Still not sure how to
> transfer the "open a new file" action to that existing instance.
>
> As for Linux, FreeBSD etc, I have no clue how to do it. For those not in
> the know, fpGUI is based directly on GDI or XLib (not Qt, GTK etc).
>
>
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
> --
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> http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/
>
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I am using last revision of Lazarus, FPC 2.6 on Windows XP SP3

Best Regards
Zaher Dirkey
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