jmpi@ur-tut.UUCP (Spike) (03/03/88)
Hello, Amigans!
This is the first of potentially many programming questions. I am beginning
work on a little program (which will eventually find its way to the Net :-) and
I need to be able to find the active window on a given screen. I know that the
Screen structure maintains a linked list of windows, but are these sorted by
activation or creation? I tend to think that they are sorted in order of cre-
ation, though I would happily be told otherwise.
If they are indeed sorted by creation order, how can I find out which one is
active? Can I get all the windows on a screen to send my program ACTIVEWINDOW
messages? Or should I just scan the window list looking for the one with the
WINDOWACTIVE flag set?
Thanks in advance for any assistance. I'm sure this is a trivial question
for all you Gurus out there ;-)
John "Reality Is Optional" Pisello--University of Rochester Computing Center
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US Mail: P.O. Box 28858 River Station Rochester, NY 14627 \XX/ lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine) (03/04/88)
In article <1086@ur-tut.UUCP> jmpi@ur-tut.UUCP (Spike) writes: >active? Can I get all the windows on a screen to send my program ACTIVEWINDOW >messages? Or should I just scan the window list looking for the one with the There can only be one active window on the system at a time. The easiest way to find it is to look at IntuitionBase -> ActiveWindow. I think it goes like this: lockbase = LockIBase(0); ActWind = IntuitionBase -> ActiveWindow; UnlockIBase(lockbase); Oh yes, use ULONG lockbase; struct Window *ActWind; Make sure to open the Intuition library first. Hope this helps! ========================================================================== PS I have been reading this news group for almost 2 years now but was unable to post to it. As of last week, this has hopefully changed. Free At Last! I would appreciate a couple replies to confirm this however... Thanks in Advance... ========== IBM is a Division of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation: "their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws." - "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" Lyle Levine: Paths -> ihnp4!wuphys!lel uunet!wucs!wuphys!lel