yogi@humus.huji.ac.il (Yossi Gil) (12/14/88)
Is it possible for a Windows/386 application running in full-screen mode to yield control to another application, and still remain displayed full-screen? Is there a way to set the priority of an application (by the user or from withing a Windows/386 application)? I noticed that most of the CPU time is given to the application owning the input focus. Sometimes this is not what the user wants, as in my situation where a foreground application provides a sophisticated user- interface to a background expert system (*): after the user asks a question, there isn't much sense in spending a lot of CPU time busy-waiting for the reply, while slowing down the process that has to calculate the answer... (*) - The expert system is written in Prolog; It is NOT a Windows application - just plain old DOS. The two programs communicate via shared files on a RAM disk. Thanx a lot for any suggestions. - Ofer Faigon