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From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Opening a window on Front Screen
Message-ID: <22329@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 14:39:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun9.175112.4115@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun11.004504.11094@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun11.004504.11094@ccad.uiowa.edu> booth@ccad.uiowa.edu (Michael Booth) writes:
>From article <1991Jun9.175112.4115@news.iastate.edu>, by taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon):
>> 
>>  I want to modify a program to open it's window on another tasks screen.
>> Steve Sheldon >> taak9@ccvax.iastate.edu    ///  | 
>
>	After you open the IntuitionLibrary, use the IntuitionBase pointer
>and access IntuitionBase->ActiveScreen.
>
>	Michael S. Booth > booth@ccad.uiowa.edu

Note that opening a window on someone else's screen without proper locking
is dangerous.  What if the screen is closed by the time you open your window?
What if the screen closes while the window is open?

If you want to use public screens, wait for 2.0 where it is properly
supported.  Then you will have to use calls such as LockPubScreen()
to gain access to another screen.
-- 
Ken Farinsky - CATS - Commodore Business Machines