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PixInsight => Wish List => Topic started by: bitli on 2013 December 30 23:30:31

Title: Require confirmation for new instances
Post by: bitli on 2013 December 30 23:30:31

I have been bitten too often by the problem of restarting PI too quickly, and not realizing immediately that I have a second instance, with different defaults.This happens especially when PI crashes on close, on W7. It seems others are surprise by the second instance.
Would it be possible to have a confirmation box when a second instance is started? May it could be disabled by command line option if desirable.
-- bitil

Title: Re: Require confirmation for new instances
Post by: georg.viehoever on 2013 December 31 03:17:05

This would be one way... I already suggested a number of times that different PI instances should share their settings. I am not aware of any other program that keeps seperate sets of settings for seperate instances. I am pretty sure that this is also the cause of some other strange effects reported as bugs, such as lost scripts or disappearing updates...
Georg

Title: Re: Require confirmation for new instances
Post by: bitli on 2014 January 23 07:04:05

This wish is solved to my satisfaction in 1.8.1.
I tried to stop PI in Windows 7 when having a huge workspace and restarted it immediately after and I did not get a separate instance.
Thanks Juan.
-- bitli