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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Subject: Re: appl-id of running aes-process
Message-ID: <1991May9.084230.8314@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
References: <3275@troll.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 08:42:30 GMT
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tolk@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Robert Tolksdorf) writes:

>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?


The current main application has the apid 0 - but this will almost
certainly fail when Atari gives us something like a MultiDesktop one day.
You could try out what happens in such a environment by testing your
program under MultiGEM.

>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.

Just some illegal idea 8-) : Intercept the AES trap and look for
WF_TOP messages sent to any application. By looking in this application's
GLOBAL field you could find out its ID.

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