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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finding out What Application is Running
Keywords: Desk Accessories, CurApName
Message-ID: <66460@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 28 Dec 88 16:15:33 GMT
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Reply-To: holland@m2.UUCP (Fred Hollander)
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
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In article <9065@ut-emx.UUCP> jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes:
>
>	In my desk accessory, I need to tell whether I've been opened
>under Excel, because Excel always keeps its edit window as the
>frontmost window.
>	Currently I just check CurApName to see if it includes the
>string "Excel". Of course that only works if someone hasn't renamed
>Excel to something else (perverse person!).
>	Anyway, does anyone have a better idea? I always get nervous
>using a low memory global!

There's a procedure called GetAppParms (see IM II) that will return 
(among other things) the Finder info.  You can check the creator
for 'XCEL'.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela
The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.