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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Finding Windows
Message-ID: <296@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 07:18:22 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.184648.11351@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1990Jul19.184648.11351@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> elrick@physics.utoronto.ca (Bruce Elrick) writes:
>If I open a window using the dos Open() command, how can I find the
>window structure (for, say, Windowtofront()) from the filehandle?

I only know a dirty way that won't be totally waterproof:
If the window is on Workbench then find Intuitionbase, scan the pointer
chain of screens for the Workbench screen and take the pointer chain for
windows inside this screen to search for your one. To identify your
window you could search for your UNIQUE window title string. And this
is already the caveat: You must be ABSOLUTELY sure that no other window
on this screen has the same title string. As I said, a rather dirty way.


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