PYQT Single Instance
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtCore, QtNetwork
class SingleApplication(QtWidgets.QApplication):
messageAvailable = QtCore.pyqtSignal(object)
def __init__(self, argv, key):
super().__init__(argv)
# cleanup (only needed for unix)
QtCore.QSharedMemory(key).attach()
self._memory = QtCore.QSharedMemory(self)
self._memory.setKey(key)
if self._memory.attach():
self._running = True
else:
self._running = False
if not self._memory.create(1):
raise RuntimeError(self._memory.errorString())
def isRunning(self):
return self._running
class SingleApplicationWithMessaging(SingleApplication):
def __init__(self, argv, key):
super().__init__(argv, key)
self._key = key
self._timeout = 1000
self._server = QtNetwork.QLocalServer(self)
if not self.isRunning():
self._server.newConnection.connect(self.handleMessage)
self._server.listen(self._key)
def handleMessage(self):
socket = self._server.nextPendingConnection()
if socket.waitForReadyRead(self._timeout):
self.messageAvailable.emit(
socket.readAll().data().decode('utf-8'))
socket.disconnectFromServer()
else:
QtCore.qDebug(socket.errorString())
def sendMessage(self, message):
if self.isRunning():
socket = QtNetwork.QLocalSocket(self)
socket.connectToServer(self._key, QtCore.QIODevice.WriteOnly)
if not socket.waitForConnected(self._timeout):
print(socket.errorString())
return False
if not isinstance(message, bytes):
message = message.encode('utf-8')
socket.write(message)
if not socket.waitForBytesWritten(self._timeout):
print(socket.errorString())
return False
socket.disconnectFromServer()
return True
return False
class Window(QtWidgets.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.edit = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(self)
self.edit.setMinimumWidth(300)
layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self)
layout.addWidget(self.edit)
def handleMessage(self, message):
self.edit.setText(message)
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
key = 'app-name'
# send commandline args as message
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
app = SingleApplicationWithMessaging(sys.argv, key)
if app.isRunning():
print('app is already running')
app.sendMessage(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
sys.exit(1)
else:
app = SingleApplication(sys.argv, key)
if app.isRunning():
print('app is already running')
sys.exit(1)
window = Window()
app.messageAvailable.connect(window.handleMessage)
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
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