#42 MultiDocument

[ddeneer]

I am using Launch4J for my XMLEditor and like your product very much. There is one feature i am really missing, that is the ability to handle open file events when my application is already running. In Mac OS there is a very elegant solution where I can register a OSXAdapter (extended mac ApplicationAdapter) and have a callback method "handleOpenFile".
It would be great to have a similar implementation for Windows through Launch4J.

Thanks
Dick Deneer

[Wyatt]

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I don't believe that Windows has that functionality built in at all. I have seen special programs made for this purpose (see gimp-remote for an example), but that is the application which handles it. I wish it would be possible to do this, as I have a similar need in Buddi (http://buddi.thecave.homeunix.org), but I think that it is a pipe dream.

Feel free to prove me wrong, though!

Cheers

[Karl von Randow]

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You can do this with DDE on Windows. I got this working with WinRun4J (also on SourceForge) quite easily, but I would really like to continue using launch4j as I really like Ant build process etc... I'm interested currently in what is involved to add DDE support to Launch4J, and I will post in the forum about it shortly.

[Damien Guillaume]

I am also waiting for this feature. I thought that the new "single instance" feature was the solution, but it just stops the program. Detecting another instance is a first step, but calling the first application instance with the name of the document to open would be much better for multi-document applications.

[the duckman]

I am just another developer, who had to switch to WinRun4J in order to enable DDE, which makes this possible. WinRun4J does have its drawbacks, but this feature is really missing in launch4j for me.

[hilt2]

the issue was copied to http://code.google.com/p/jliftoff/issues/list