Multiple instances open multiple instances

I’m trying to implement an app that allows multiple instance to open. Each window is the same app pointing to index.html. I’m using App.on(“open”) to open new instances like the spec:

nw.App.on("open", function(args)
{
	nw.Window.open("index.html", { new_instance: true });
});

This causes each instance to listen for the open event. Instead of getting just 1 new window, each instance opens it’s own new window, leading to “Window Madness”.

I imagine most apps make the “main window” special, and be the only listener, but that doesn’t work. If the user closes the first window, the application will no longer open new instances.

Is this a bug, or a feature oversight? How can I get my application to open just 1 new window when they already have 3 or 4 instances already open?

[theakman2]

I was also facing this problem. I got around it by:

1. Changing the main field in the package.json from my index.html file to a new main.js file:

{
  ...
  "main": "main.js"
  ...
}

1. Adding the following code to the main.js file:

function openApp() {
	nw.Window.open('index.html');
}

nw.App.on('open', openApp);
openApp();

1. Removing all App ‘open’ event listeners from the index.html file.

[fusionstream]

Just a note that the above doesn’t quite work as expected. This is visible when using adding a tray icon. Only one tray icon will be visible. There are other issues such as the inability to open more instances after closing the 2nd opened instance.