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From: mckie@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William McKie)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: SunPHIGS inquire wks state value
Message-ID: <7209@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Jul 90 23:54:03 GMT
Reply-To: mckie@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William McKie)
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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We recently had use for knowing whether a particular PHIGS
workstation was currently open or not, and we located the
INQUIRE WORKSTATION STATE VALUE routine in the SunPHIGS 1.1
manual (p 675).  However, there appears to be no way to
tell this routine which workstation we are asking about,
as there is no workstation id argument in the argument list,
only the argument for the returned state of some workstation.

E.g.
 
 In C, the call is:      pinqwsst( ws_state )
                         Pwsstate *ws_state; 

 In fortran, the call is:   call pqwkst( wksta )
                            integer wksta

How do we use this routine to inquire about a specific
workstation?

Thanks,
-Bill McKie
mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov