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Subject: Re: Finding Screens
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Date: 18 Sep 90 06:00:39 GMT
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>Resp: 1 of 1 About: Re: Finding Screens
><> [Peter Cherna] (*Masked*@cbmvax.commodore.com)
>
>No.  Do not walk the screen structure.  Two cooperating programs should
>anyways have a method of talking to each other about application specific
>things, so make this just another piece of information.  It seems to
>me that initial rendezvous between two cooperating things should be
>done by finding a "named" object.  The most appropriate would be a
>named message port.  (Named libraries are another example that is
>less applicable to you).  Under 2.0, we have named screens as well.
>

Thanks! I have decided to d this because it "seemed" cleaner , but a few
nice folks did also remind me that IntuitionBase has a screen pointer in it
as well.

Thanks for all the help ...

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