Preventing multiple instances of the same program

2 replies · 1,439 views · Started 18 June 2004

Sludge 18 Jun 2004, 11:26

Hello guys,

I've been porting my windows CE game engine to symbian and have a question about program instances.

In windows I'm used to check whether an identical process is running and letting that process run in the foreground, while closing the other. I know something similar can be done in symbian as well (I've seen some games doing it). The problem is that it is very difficult to search for this kind of thing in the manual, so I hope some of you can help me out with this.

Thanks in advance.

MirekCz 18 Jun 2004, 21:54

it's done automatically by the OS.
You don't need to do anything in your code.
Just check the hello world example or anything.

Sludge 28 Jun 2004, 09:50

Hmm, it seems that it work like that for Series60 devices.

However, UIQ devices don't seem to remember program instances and just start a 2nd version of your program. Is there a way to 'turn this on' for UIQ devices within the program as well?