[squeak-dev] [Question] How to ensure a single windows vm instance?

> Dear folks
>
> I've developed a game in Squeak, mainly used on windows.
> Due to some bug in the recent windows vm  [1] I needed to fall back to
> an old VM which does not provide a splash screen at the beginning.
> As a consequence children playing this game might start the vm more than
> one time -- not getting any feedback if it has already started -- which
> leads to some nasty consequences.
>
> So: I guess I miss something obvious, but can someone point me to an
> easy way to ensure only a single squeak instance on windows?
> I guess asking some registry or elsewhere for running (squeak) processes
> might help, any pointers in this direction?
>
> Thanks
>
> Markus
>
> [1] http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6818
>
>

> Hi Markus -
>
> I've finally gotten around to fixing the fullscreen problem. Try  
> the latest VM and see if that helps:
>
>   http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.7-bin.zip
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
> Markus Gälli wrote:
>> Dear folks
>> I've developed a game in Squeak, mainly used on windows.
>> Due to some bug in the recent windows vm  [1] I needed to fall  
>> back to an old VM which does not provide a splash screen at the  
>> beginning.
>> As a consequence children playing this game might start the vm  
>> more than one time -- not getting any feedback if it has already  
>> started -- which leads to some nasty consequences.
>> So: I guess I miss something obvious, but can someone point me to  
>> an easy way to ensure only a single squeak instance on windows?
>> I guess asking some registry or elsewhere for running (squeak)  
>> processes might help, any pointers in this direction?
>> Thanks
>> Markus
>> [1] http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6818
>
>