Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!apple!well!brecher
From: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Startup Applications? (How to tell if you are one)
Message-ID: <11335@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 03:28:34 GMT
References: <1623@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
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Organization: Software Supply, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1623@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
writes:

> Is there a way to determine whether your program is running as a startup
> application? I suspect it can be done, since PowerStation knows when to run
> its startup page and when to run its user interface...

PowerStation does this when it is launched:

    IamStartup := false
    Scan system heap for PowerStation's owned relocatable block
    if not found then
        create the owned block
        if startup name in boot blocks of system volume = (CurApName) then
            IamStartup := true

This is not entirely foolproof, as the user might have switch-launched to a
new system volume for which PowerStation is the startup in the boot blocks,
from the real startup volume which did not have PowerStation as the startup
application.  But I can't think of any foolproof method.
-- 

brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)