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I've been going through hosting hell this past week with one host suspending my account and another blacklisting my IP.

One claims that I'm overusing the resources for a shared hosting plan, and the other claims that my system is bruteforcing their servers.

The only new thing that I had added is a ...

when I mention PB, they start to grin from ear to ear at me with sarcastic smile
You can make money from your PureBasic apps; here's my current Inbox for inspiration. Show them this post and see how they come up more ways to rubbish PureBasic, despite the fact that it's making me good money at a ...

On the flip side this should not work either: a.s = ""
b.s = "abc"
If a : Debug "a" : EndIf
If b : Debug "b" : EndIf But it does. :lol:
Well, it only shows "b" in the Debug Output for me. So, it works correct here.
That's boolean on strings - so NOT should work too.

Technically if (If a$) is ...

On the flip side this should not work either:But it does.

Thank you wilbert! Amazing work!

This must be added to the Mac forum stickies for future reference.

Maybe you can use -n from the terminal to open a second instance and use CFNotificationCenter to send the string to the original application.
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=68047 WOW!!! :shock:

That's exactly what I'm looking for and it works perfectly! Thank you so much ...

I don't know if it is even possible what you want.

Did you consider alternative options like using AppleScript to tell to your already running application what you want it to do ?
The running instance would not even know that a second instance is being launched. But when the second instance is ...

Can you give us a function description of what do you exactly want?

Do you want that all instances do the same or different things?
By default Mac does not allow multiple instances of an app to run concurrently. If an instance is already running, trying to launch it again using the command-line ...

wilbert wrote:

coder14 wrote:Is there a way or are the parameters lost forever?

I'm confused right now about what you want.

Do you mean that if you use

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open -a myApp.app --args params

you want the arguments to be passed to the instance that is already running ?

Yes!

Thank you for your answers. CountProgramParameters and ProgramParameter works in the first instance. But how do i get the parameters from the second instance.

Starting my app from Terminal :
1. I launch my app (from Terminal or Finder doesn't matter). While this instance is running:
2. I launch ...

MacOS allows only a single instance by default.

This is not 100% true, because if you run this inside a new terminal window you will get a new program running.
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

Only if you run the .app packet OSX will not open a second version of it.
But how ...

Maybe you can do it like this:


Global Window_0, Button_0


Procedure isAlreadyRunning()

thisApp =CocoaMessage(0,0, "NSRunningApplication currentApplication")
thisAppName =CocoaMessage(0, thisApp, "localizedName")

If thisAppName
thisName.s =PeekS(CocoaMessage(0, thisAppName, "UTF8String ...

MacOS does not launch multiple instances of the same app by default. If an associated file is double-clicked in Finder when an instance of the app is already running we can get the file name with this callback routine from Fred:

http://forums.purebasic.com/english/viewtopic.php?p=391284&sid ...

Something like this ?
If OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 322, 150, "EditorGadget", #PB_Window_SystemMenu | #PB_Window_ScreenCentered)
EditorGadget(0, 8, 8, 306, 133)

Attributes = CocoaMessage(0, 0, "NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:",
CocoaMessage(0, 0, "NSColor orangeColor"),
"forKey ...