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From: gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier)
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Subject: Re: How do I get a handle for an existing window? (Think Pascal)
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Date: 9 Oct 90 23:25:34 GMT
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In article <21099@well.sf.ca.us> smoke@well.sf.ca.us (Nicholas Jackiw) writes:
>In article <1990Oct6.063726.19882@agate.berkeley.edu> bmyers@garnet.berkeley.ed
u (Brian Myers) writes:
>>I want to change the title of the Pascal Drawing window from "Drawing" to
>>something else.
>Pascal can't interfere with the window record's linked list of windows,
>however.  So if you bring up a topmost but invisible window, take the
>ptr to it which NewWindow returns, and look through the list starting
>at WindowPeek(theWindow)^.nextWindow, you'll eventually find one
>such that WindowPeek(someWindow)^.titleHandle^^='Drawing'.  You can
>change this title with SetWTitle.

Have you actually done this? I remembering trying to do it to the text window.
Every once in a while, Pascal calls SetWTitle itself, always with the same
string. I'd have had to patch SetWTitle. But that was before I discovered
the event loop gets murdered when you run with the text window. Bad news.
--
 Pete Gontier, gurgle@well.sf.ca.us
 Software Imagineer, Kiwi Software, Inc.