rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) (09/24/90)
Two questions:
1. I have been trying to print out Postscript from Pagestream onto
disk, and then printing them on the NeXTs that we have here. The Problem is
that none of the text shows up in the output, only the pictures due, and also,
the postscript viewer on the NeXT show a lot of errors in the file. (I am using
just the postscript viewer, not the Encapsulated Postcript viewer)
2. Also, I am writing a DA that needs to know if there is a program
running or not. Is there an easy way to check this?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ryan 'Gozar' Collins ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o__)\ rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET
/ ) RC1DSANU@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
/ / ____ R.COLLINS1 (On GEnie)
/(____/__(_) o)_/
/) [ || ] Atari Computers,
"There is no Substitute." [ || ] They're not just
Vs lbh pna ernq guvf, lbh'er geniryvat // || \\ for breakfast
gbb pybfr! // || \\ anymore
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Yea, right, thats what I said.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) (09/24/90)
In article <2384.26fca905@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes: > 2. Also, I am writing a DA that needs to know if there is a program > running or not. Is there an easy way to check this? > There's always a program running (the GEM DESKTOP is just an ordinary TOS program, loaded from ROM instead of from disk). If you mean, "is the currently running program not the desktop", you might try the shel_read AES call: char pgmname[128], cmdline[128]; if (shel_read(pgmname, cmdline) == 0) printf("an error occured\n"); else printf("the desktop thinks %s is the currently running program\n", pgmname); Note also that the desktop's idea of what the current program is may not correspond to reality, since if a program run from the desktop runs another program, there's no way for the desktop to know. -- Eric R. Smith email: Dept. of Mathematics ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario ersmith@uwovax.bitnet London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7 ph: (519) 661-3638
gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) (09/24/90)
In article <7106.26fcfbec@uwovax.uwo.ca> 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) writes: >In article <2384.26fca905@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes: >> 2. Also, I am writing a DA that needs to know if there is a program >> running or not. Is there an easy way to check this? >> > >There's always a program running (the GEM DESKTOP is just an ordinary TOS >program, loaded from ROM instead of from disk). If you mean, "is the >currently running program not the desktop", you might try the shel_read >AES call: [...] There's another problem, if I recall correctly -- shel_read() will return the name of a GEM program even after you exit, until you start another one from the desktop. I recall seeing this in a magazine article about using desktop accessories to send special messages to programs that allowed extensions that way: you can't be sure the user is actually running that program if shel_read() says it's so. Don't know if this was fixed in TOS 1.4. Ryan, can you tell us WHY you need to know if a program is running? -- "Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to." - Dan Bernstein
uace0@menudo.uh.edu (Michael B. Vederman) (09/24/90)
Mention was made about the shel_read() function returning a program after the program exits. I don't know if this is true for shel_read(), but shel_find() definitely had this problem. I believe the two are related, since they both access the same portion of memory. I believe TOS 1.4 and greater has fixed this. - mike -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Double Click Me | Double Click Software | P.O. Box 741206 | Houston, Tx, 77274 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Voice: (713)977-6520 | DC DESKTOP | DC FORMATTER | DC UTILITIES | and others
rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) (09/25/90)
In article <1990Sep23.230318.14193@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: > Ryan, can you tell us WHY you need to know if a program is running? > I'm writing a little DA that will write a log file when you start up your ST, tell you when you logoff your ST, park the hard drive when you logoff also. I'd hate to park the hard drive when your in the middle of a prg. I'm thinking of new little things every day to add to it. (like password protection) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ryan 'Gozar' Collins ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o__)\ rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET / ) RC1DSANU@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu / / ____ R.COLLINS1 (On GEnie) /(____/__(_) o)_/ /) [ || ] Atari Computers, "There is no Substitute." [ || ] They're not just Vs lbh pna ernq guvf, lbh'er geniryvat // || \\ for breakfast gbb pybfr! // || \\ anymore ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Yea, right, thats what I said.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~