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From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Checking for MF (was Re: Need some MF help)
Message-ID: <2750@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 89 21:48:40 GMT
References: <12904@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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From article <12904@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, by matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews):
> ...but I would like a call to find out whether my program is
> in the background...it's easy to drop a suspend or resume event...
> ...with ugly
> effects in terms of cursor tracking, notification of asynchronous
> events, and other application-specific things.

> One alternative is to compare my name to CurApName...

No good: your copy of CurApName is always yours (like most low memory globals).

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