Opening second mushclient

If you already have a mushclient running and you open another one, it'd be nice if it gave you the option to not auto connect to all the worlds in the startup list.
If you have 8 MOO's that auto connect on startup, and auto reconnect on disconenct, they will keep `fighting` about the connection, disconnecting the other, which is verry spammy to both you, and the MU*. I had to pull my network cable to finally stop them from reconnecting, since I couldn't kill mushclient due to the millions of popups saying I'd been disconnected :)
Also, when you double click on a world file in the explorer, it launches a new mushclient. Can't this file be loaded by the already running mushclient?

A command line argument might be a handy way to implement such a safeguard. That way Windows (or Browser) association pointers could be adjusted to call MUSHclient using the argument and avoid the problem.

Personally, I would prefer multiple instances of MUSHclient not be opened, but Ah well... ;)

The other option is to provide a setting and a test>

Setting - Keep single instance.

POVRay has this one, since the linker dlls used to let it talk to other programs can't distinguish between one copy and another, making modellers that call it and other such things malfunction. When the option is on, it tests to see if the OS already has a copy loaded and terminates.

Test - Am I loaded already.

Like I said, this would work with 'Keep single instance' to kill the program if it is already loaded previously, -but- the same basic test can be used to automatically skip the opening/connection of worlds that are in the auto-load list.

This way you solve the problem for both types of people. ;)

Hello All.
Yeah Magnum. I've been asking about this ability to stop autoconnects for a long time too. I had been told it was some key combination that I could never get to work.
Maybe the line should be -noautoconnect or -NAC, Anyways just adding my 2 cents worth..

Stefan Wulph..

There is already a "/noauto" MUSHclient command-line option.

You could put that on your default execution shortcut, and then use the "open worlds in startup list" menu item (Ctrl+Alt+O) to open the worlds in the list if you want to.