Talk:CreateMutex plug-in

No real need for this plugin as the System.dll plugin alread can do this. Check out this code:

; Just a key to store a window handle in
!define PLUGIN_INSTREGKEY "Software\My Company\My Product"
 
Function .onInit
  ; Call the Win32 API to create the mutex. Pass a unique string (ie. product name)
  System::Call 'kernel32::CreateMutexA(i 0, i 0, t "AnyUniqueText") i .r1 ?e'
  Pop $R0 ; Get the mutex handle
 
  ; If the create mutex call returns a NULL handle then we can proceed
  ; otherwise we must bring the already running instance to foreground.
  StrCmp $R0 0 noprevinst
    ; Get the window handle from registry
    ReadRegStr $R0 HKCU "${PLUGIN_INSTREGKEY}" "WindowHandle"
    System::Call 'user32::SetForegroundWindow(i $R0) i ?e'
    Abort
 
  noprevinst:
 
FunctionEnd
 
Function .onGUIInit
  ; Once the installer GUI is up, store the window handle for use later
  WriteRegStr HKCU "${PLUGIN_INSTREGKEY}" "WindowHandle" "$HWNDPARENT"
FunctionEnd
 
Function .onGUIEnd
  ; Remove the registry value once installer quits
  DeleteRegValue HKCU "${PLUGIN_INSTREGKEY}" "WindowHandle"
FunctionEnd

This code also brings the running instance of the installer to the foreground if starting another instance.

Partly applied as a link to Allow_only_one_installer_instance page, except the extra code about bringing window to foreground - which is not related to mutexes. -- deguix 12:22, 20 January 2006 (PST)