Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!steveb
From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggested Feautre for New Software
Message-ID: <3083@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 15:01:54 GMT
References: <9641@udenva.cair.du.edu>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <9641@udenva.cair.du.edu> news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes:
>
>I would like to make a suggestion, based on my experiences, to the
>authors of software:
>
>Could you please put in the option, that could be saved in a program 
>preferences file, lie .trm files for Online! or the Textcraft Plus
>preferences file, that would cause the program to elevate its status
>to a higher priority than most others when its window or screen is
>activated. This would automatically give the user a single task....
>
>What do you think ?
>

This sounds like it could be handled by one of the 'click-to-front' type
programs.  If the program in question is running as a CLI process then it
would be pretty easy to find out that the active window contained process
#xxx and bump the priority accordingly.  I imagine you could do some fancy
stuff to find out which task was receiving IDCMP messages if you were not
running a CLI process, and thus find the correct process/task in this manner.
I'm not volunteering, just speculating.  Any takers ?

	Steve