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Thanks. GetSystemInfo() does not seem to have option to get the Desktop path (user or common), nor the system drive.¨ But in my case I think CommonAppData and MyDocuments will do what I want this time. %windir% is already covered by the GetSystemInfo() command %systemdrive% is also used in windows, ...

Thanks. CreatePort() works for me, even without actually using the port to send anything. The first copy of the program creates the port, then double-starting the next program will throw an error when it tries to create a port that already exists. So I now just set ExitOnError(false) and make my own...

On Amiga systems we can use sys: to adress the system drive.

But how to find the system drive on a window system, in the odd cases this is not c: ?
The same question also applies for locations like Desktop, Appdata, Documents etc for current user

Thanks for the reply. Actually I was looking for a solution that will work on windows too. I have a workaround plan in case Hollywood dont have an internal way to detect it. Just let the program create a file at startup, and then delete the file when quitting. Then check if this file exists on every...

Is there a way to check if the program is running, to avoid the possibility of starting two copies of the program?

I found this discussed in an old feature request, but I couldnt find if it have been adressed yet.
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When running the included Hollywood example named DisplayStyle you can tick and untick the borderless flag. For each cycle the window will move up and left the same number of pixels that the size of the borders. Repeating this and it will eventually move until you no longer can reach that button. If...

Ah. I see now. I should use HaveFreeChannel to check if the channel can be used.
Perhaps it could be mentioned in the docs that those channels are reserved?

That explains the error. But why does getchannels report that there are 8 available channels?

I have this game, where my previous version just played its samples without specifying an audio channel. Then I ran into issues with the android version, so I did change this so they all had audio channel specified. like this: PlaySample(2, {Channel = 2}) This worked well for android and windows ver...

I have this LCD game that uses 8 different wav files for sound effects. I have compiled it for both amiga, windows and android and it was working normally on all platforms. Now I have got the permission to use some wav files from an italian website, that are more accurate to the original sounds. So ...