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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP!!! MultiFinder EXPERT NEEDED!!!
Message-ID: <9161@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 89 08:49:12 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <328@hermix.UUCP> lance@hermix.UUCP (Lance Ellinghouse) writes:
>What we need is to ask MultiFinder if a program is still running..
>Apple cannot tell me, and I cannot find the information anywhere..
>PLEASE HELP!!

It should be possible to do this cleanly in System 7.0.  In System
6.0.x, it's simple, but not totally clean.  Just look in the Apple
menu, using repeated GetItem calls, for the name of the application.
(You can tell when you get to the end of the menu by doing a
CountMItems.)  The item containing the application's name will go away
when the application quits.  This may break on future systems, but it
will continue to work on System 6.0.x for all time, so as long as you
do a SysEnvirons and check the system version before doing this, you're
cool.  Now send me a million dollars.  Thanks.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world,
 and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming
 feature.  They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
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