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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finding out What Application is Running
Message-ID: <2589@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 20:20:41 GMT
References: <9065@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Computer X Inc.
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Jim Meiss (jdm@ut-emx.UUCP) 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!

Instead of looking for a particular nasty application, why not look for
the particular behaviour instead?  This way you'll work with any
application that behaves that way, regardless of the name.  In this case,
perhaps you could just call FrontWindow, and see if it's yours.

Just a suggestion...


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