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From: Gribnif@umass (Dan Wilga at UMASS Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Closing desk accessories
Message-ID: <8802210020416D5.BLBS@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 88 05:22:31 GMT
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Greetings!

Is there some way to actually "tell" desk accessories that are currectly
opened within an application to close? I am writing a program that uses
Pexec() to call other programs, but the problem I am running into is that
any DA's that occupy windows and are left open when my program executes
another do not receive the AC_CLOSE message and so do not know they should
be closed. Of course, I cannot simply close their windows for them; that
only messes them up. Pterm() somehow does this for itself since it
automagically sends the correct message when the application terminates.
shel_write() also seems to suffer from this same problem. Is there any
good solution, short of hacking-into the OS?

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"In those days, men were real men,           Dan Wilga
 women were real women, and small
 furry creatures from Alpha Centauri         Gribnif@UMASS.Bitnet
 were REAL small furry creatures
 from Alpha Centauri" -- Hitchhikers