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From: llama@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joe Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Determine the foreground application
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Date: 17 Oct 90 20:05:50 GMT
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In article <5180@etsu.CMI.COM> dave@cmi.com (David Halonen) writes:
>DrawMenuBar gets called as each app makes a major context switch.  Patch 
>that sucker to keep track of who was on top before your app gets there and 
>then do a OpenDeskApp on that name.  When DrawMenuBar is called, 
>currAppName has the appropriate name filled in.  We've had great success 
>with this.  Of course w/ System 7, a patch won't be necessary - I believe.

OK.  Let's say I'm a DrawMenuBar patch and I spy on curAppName.  What is the
easist way for me to go from this to finding the current app CREATOR TYPE
(or does the easiest way even use curAppName??).

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