[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: How to know if application already runni

[Daniel Spiewak <djspiewak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You have several options on this one, only one of them having to do with SWT itself.  The Display class has a method which returns an array of all the Shell(s) open on that Display.  Alternatively, you can use file-locking, even server sockets to implement the behavior.

Daniel

Doug Pearson wrote:

Is there any way to detect from one SWT application if another SWT application is already running?

In Windows the usual solution to this was using ::FindWindow() to look for the window class (or name).

Is there anything like that or any alternative available in SWT?

Doug