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From: bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: How do I get a handle for an existing window? (Think Pascal)
Summary: novice question--want to change title of Drawing window
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Date: 6 Oct 90 06:37:26 GMT
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I want to change the title of the Pascal Drawing window from "Drawing" to
something else.  I could probably do it by using ShowWindow to bring
the window to the front and the calling the function that gives you the
handle of the active window, but I want a more versatile algorithm that
doesn't require bringing the window to the front.  

There's an assembly language constant called, I think, WindowsList, or somethinglike that, but THINK Pascal doesn't recognize it, so I can't get at the
first entry in the system's linked list of windows.  I also can't find
any other traps that return a window handle unless you already have some
other window handle to pass them.  (Unless of course you create brand
new windows, which is not what I need to do.)

I assume there's some simple solution that I as a mere novice creeping
over from the MS-DOS world haven't yet encountered?

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