#Late bird gets no worm windows

But you cannot open that document right now in Atlantis without closing the 'Save as eBook' modal dialog.

You then realize that you need to retrieve some of the required information from another Atlantis document. Let's suppose that you have started specifying properties for an eBook in the modal dialog displayed by the Save as eBook command of Atlantis. What's more in some cases you have no choice but to run an extra instance of Atlantis in order to complete a task. Having several running instances of Atlantis is unproblematic provided your system has enough resources.

#Late bird gets no worm windows

In such cases, a new instance of Atlantis is actually launched to answer the Windows system call.

This happens when the first instance of Atlantis is busy performing some other important action and cannot be distracted from the job in hand. However at times you might end up with two running instances of Atlantis, each running instance having its own 'main window' and its own button on the Windows Taskbar. In other words, Atlantis automatically cancels any redundant instance of itself. When another instance of Atlantis is already running (and it is not busy displaying a modal dialog), the new instance launched by your Windows system simply shuts itself down quietly without even getting into view, and the requested document opens in the first running instance of Atlantis. When it is launched, Atlantis always checks if it might not already be running. For example, when you double-click a document associated with Atlantis in Windows Explorer, your Windows system automatically starts launching a new instance of Atlantis to open that document. So whenever possible Atlantis tries to keep only one running instance of itself. Having a single running instance of Atlantis also saves system resources: only one main window with menus, toolbars, status bar, Control Board is created instead of several. This is so that Atlantis will always leave enough elbowroom on the Windows Taskbar for the buttons of other applications. On the other hand, each open document has its own separate button on the Atlantis Document Bar within the Atlantis main window. In most cases Atlantis is represented by a single button on the Windows Taskbar no matter how many documents you create or open simultaneously.