Re: Detecting running application

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 11 May 2006, at 09:14, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> I remember that back in the old days of GNUstep, when you launched an
> application twice, you got an alert that the application is already
> running. So I figured 'registering' the bundle with gdomap(? I think
> that was how it was done back then) would do the trick. However, I
> just launched SystemPreferences twice and no alert.. Uhm?

The behaviour when starting up a copy of a running app is now  
controlled by the NSUseRunningCopy user default as in OPENSTEP/MacOS-X
This is described in the gnustep gui documentation in the section on  
user defaults.
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/Gui/ 
DefaultsSummary.html