On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:38:38 -0300, "Alexandre Moreira" alexandream@gmail.com wrote:
What you guys say ? we have some options (as far as I can see):
Wait until someone can implement it in DDE "The Right Way"; I try to implement it in Named pipes, but the support will only exist for windows NT, 2K, XP, Vista; We have a drink and forget about this one-instance support on windows (lol).
The latter one sounds nice, but won't help Geany ;-).
I don't know how to proceed, I only know I have no idea about DDE and the more I look into the Windows API the more I want to run away. Furthermore, I think it is not very clever to spend time on developing the feature for Windows with their weird(read: other than we know it) named pipe support and then it works only with the newer versions of Windows. I don't know how many people are using Geany under Windows and I don't know how many of them have a Windows older than Windows 2000.
The Windows version of Geany exists since 1.0(more or less) but this was never my primary target and I don't want to spend so much time for the Windows code. So, if anyone want to write the code, whether it is Nick, Alexandre or whoever, I will appreciate it. But I'm sure, I don't stress myself with DDE or something like this. Sorry.
Anyway, today, I set up a cross compiler environment with mingw32 (there is a nice tutorial at http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/%7Ecottrell/cross-gtk/#config-build). It's not yet completely working, but when it does, developing Windows code is more easy for me(have only a running Windows on my laptop and it is quite slow with Windows).
Regards, Enrico
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