[oXygen-user] Mac OSX, single instance of diffFiles?

[Steven Anderson]

My use case is that I'd like to use it as my git and/or Perforce diff
tool.  Since a new instance is opened every time, after a full day, I often
find I have 5 or 6 different diffFiles apps open.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) <
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Unfortunately that's not possible. The Oxygen tools (including Diff Files)
> do not have the single instance implementation that the main Oxygen
> application has. The property you mentioned works only for the main
> application and it's meant to do the opposite (make it multiple instance)
> when it is set to "true".
> I've logged a feature request for this.
>
> Note that if you perform the comparison/diff from within Oxygen, then you
> only have the one Diff Files window.
>
> May I ask what is your use case?
> If you start the diffFiles tool from a script it may be possible to at
> least terminate the previous instance before starting a new one.
>
> Regards,
> Adrian
> ---
> Adrian Buza
> Oxygen XML Editor Support
>
> > On 20 aug. 2015, at 21:24, Steven Anderson <>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a Mac and I'd like to have a single instance of diffFiles
> running.  I tried to add
> >
> > -Dcom.oxygenxml.MultipleInstances=false\
> >
> > to the shell script invocation, but that didn't seem to help.  Is there
> a way to specify this?
> >
> > --
> >
> >      Steve
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     Steve
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