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From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: XFCN/XCMD for Application ListSKIP/NEWSGROUP
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.210004.24889@guinness.idbsu.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 21:00:04 GMT
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In article <5764@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> priha@tik.vtt.fi (Ilkka Priha) writes:
>
>In article <1991Jun19.205509.1420@guinness.idbsu.edu> 
>bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter) writes:
>> You can do it without an XFCN if you want, try:
>> 
>> put menu Application into applications
>> delete line 1 to 3 of applications (gets rid of the show/hide stuff)
>
>Actually, in HyperCard 2.1 you have a new function, "the programs", which 
>returns active applications in separate lines.

Actually, "the programs" only gives you a certain subset of the programs
running, that subset being the "linkable" applications.  For instance, if I'm
running the Finder, TheNews, and HyperCard (as I am at the moment) "the
programs" will not contain TheNews.
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