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From: tolk@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Robert Tolksdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: appl-id of running aes-process
Message-ID: <3275@troll.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 9 May 91 00:04:19 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Is there a way to find out the appl_id of the currently running program?
It seems as if application 1 is GEM's screenmanager, 2 and above are
accessories and 0 is the id of a loaded application. Does this hold in
any circumstances?

Is it possible to get the appl_id of the application that is owner of the
topmost window? Even if the running loaded application has id 1, there could
always be an accessory that has opened the topmost window.

The background: I'm working on an accessory that sends window-messages to
the currently running application. It works fine - even with the desktop -
as long as there are no accessory-owned windows. I'm sending the messages
via appl_write to application 1 with the window-handle returned by
wind_get(0,WF_TOP,...)

Ciao Robert Tolksdorf / Koertestr.30 / D-1000 Berlin 61