Screentogif: [Feature Request] Option to prevent multiple instances

Created on 17 Oct 2019  路  3Comments  路  Source: NickeManarin/ScreenToGif

When launching ScreenToGif from a shortcut (e.g. Start Menu or hotkey) it runs a new instance every time.

Seeing as it's possible to have all ScreenToGif windows closed and only have a system tray icon present, it's easy to forget that ScreenToGif is already running, so you ended up going back to the Start Menu (or pressing your own launch hotkey) to open it. This results in yet another instance of the program running, and you can end up with multiple identical icons in the system tray.

Having an option to restrict ScreenToGif to one instance would mean that if ScreenToGif is already loaded that any subsequent attempts to launch the program would just activate the _existing_ instance instead of launching a new one.

enhancement

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Feature is available with v2.21.
When the app is already running, it will simply focus on the first instance.

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Good suggestion. This is already one of the most feature-complete animation tools I know of outside of commercial software. As such, it's going to start getting used for some important projects that take some late hours. Anything to help avoid getting confused between windows and files is going to save a lot of headaches.

Feature is available with v2.21.
When the app is already running, it will simply focus on the first instance.

Very much appreciated! Thank you for your ongoing hard work on this project.

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