From 303b51198e0886e183e7c88ab536bd6015220bad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rose <david@ddrose.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:49:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] enforce a single ShowBase

---
 direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py b/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py
index 6c7a0976c2..6a638b2b72 100644
--- a/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py
+++ b/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py
@@ -303,6 +303,10 @@ class ShowBase(DirectObject.DirectObject):
                 # Windows XP supports a 32-bit affinity mask
                 TrueClock.getGlobalPtr().setCpuAffinity(1 << (affinity % 32))
 
+        # Make sure we're not making more than one ShowBase.
+        if hasattr(__builtin__, 'base'):
+            raise StandardError, "Attempt to spawn multiple ShowBase instances!"
+        
         __builtin__.base = self
         __builtin__.render2d = self.render2d
         __builtin__.aspect2d = self.aspect2d