KDSingleApplication is a helper class for single-instance policy applications
written by KDAB.
Currently the documentation is woefully lacking, but see the examples or tests for inspiration. Basically it involves:
- Create a
Q(Core|Gui)Applicationobject. - Create a
KDSingleApplicationobject. - Check if the current instance is primary (or "master") or
secondary (or "slave") by calling
isPrimaryInstance:- the primary instance needs to listen from messages coming from the
secondary instances, by connecting a slot to the
messageReceivedsignal; - the secondary instances can send messages to the primary instance
by calling
sendMessage.
- the primary instance needs to listen from messages coming from the
secondary instances, by connecting a slot to the
See INSTALL.txt for installation instructions using CMake.
KDSingleApplication is © Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB and is available under the terms of the MIT license.
Contact KDAB at [email protected] if you need different licensing options.
KDAB will happily accept external contributions.
Please submit your contributions or issue reports from our GitHub space at https://github.com/KDAB/KDSingleApplication.
KDSingleApplication is supported and maintained by Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB (KDAB).
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