Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!claris!outpost.UUCP!peirce From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Sublaunching ??? Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 90 15:48:29 GMT Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP Organization: Peirce Software Lines: 24 X-Mailer: uMail - Mac Release: 0.1.4 In article <1990Dec12.155057.5967@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: > > In article <1990Dec11.004705.20759@dhw68k.cts.com> finnegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Greg Finnegan) writes: > > > >We just added sublaunching to our application and everything works > >fine so far. However, if you sublaunch to another application (with > >a document that you want to open) and that application is already > >running under MultiFinder, the application just comes to the front. > >Apparently, MultiFinder does some low level mucking to allow > >sublaunching to open apps with a document. > > > >Anybody have any ideas how I might do the same? > > > >Greg. > > Yes, but not many (I've tried). The OSDispatch trap is what does it, I > believe--- if you can figure out its format, you can do it. Warning: if you plan of mucking with OSDispatch note that Apple has changed is significantly with System 7. Since it's not documented, there are free to do this. They even changed with again from System 7.0a7 to System 7.0b1. -- michael -- Michael Peirce -- {apple,decwrl}!claris!outpost!peirce -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- and Consulting -- (408) 244-6554