Monkeybread Xojo plugin - WindowsMutexMBS class

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WindowsMutexMBS class

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
class	Windows Mutex	MBS Win Plugin	3.3	❌ No	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	Desktop, Console & Web

Function: A class for a mutex.
Notes:
As a mutex must have a unique name you can use this class to find out if an application is allready running.
Try to create a mutex with an unique name and if it allready exists your application was launched twice.

3 properties
- property Handle as Integer
- property Lasterror as Integer
- property Name as String
6 methods
- method close
- method Create(name as string)
- method Lock
- method Open(name as string)
- method TryLock as Boolean
- method Unlock

This class has no sub classes.

Some examples using this class:

/Win/WindowsMutexTest

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