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From: jmpi@ur-tut.UUCP (Spike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Finding the Active Window
Message-ID: <1086@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 01:20:13 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
Lines: 19
Keywords: Intuition, Screen, Window

Hello, Amigans!
  This is the first of potentially many programming questions.  I am beginning
work on a little program (which will eventually find its way to the Net :-) and
I need to be able to find the active window on a given screen.  I know that the
Screen structure maintains a linked list of windows, but are these sorted by
activation or creation?  I tend to think that they are sorted in order of cre-
ation, though I would happily be told otherwise.  
  If they are indeed sorted by creation order, how can I find out which one is
active?  Can I get all the windows on a screen to send my program ACTIVEWINDOW
messages?  Or should I just scan the window list looking for the one with the
WINDOWACTIVE flag set?
  Thanks in advance for any assistance.  I'm sure this is a trivial question
for all you Gurus out there ;-)

 John "Reality Is Optional" Pisello--University of Rochester Computing Center 
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