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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 1.3 (or ...)
Message-ID: <21945@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 05:05:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.21945
Posted: Wed Nov 25 05:05:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 18:37:03 EST
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Keywords: system requesters
Summary: sample source code to fix your problem

In article <21943@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> carlson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Richard L. Carlson) writes:
>
>Here's yet another suggestion for eliminating a minor inconvenience:
>
>Currently, when a system requester is created, the workbench screen is
>implicitly brought to the front so that the requester is guaranteed to
>appear...
>...Is there a major problem with restoring a screen that I have overlooked?

There is already a facilty in the OS to address your complaint,
and fix your example of the VT100 screen.  All it requires is some
dillegence on the part of the programmer:



By default the DOS will place requesters relating to your process
in the Workbench screen.  If your program opens a custom screen it must
direct DOS to the new location.  This code fragment show how to do that:

------- cut here ------
#include "libraries/dosextens.h"
    ...
struct Process *mproc;
struct Window  *window;
APTR           temp;
    ...
    mproc=(struct Process *)FindTask(0L);
    temp=mproc->pr_WindowPtr;           /* save old value */
    mproc->pr_WindowPtr=(APTR)window;   /* set a pointer to any open
                                         * window on your screen */
    ...
    mproc->pr_WindowPtr=temp;   /* restore value _before_ CloseWindow */
    ...
    CloseWindow(window);

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