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from: GEORGE DE BRUIN
date: 1997-07-23 04:17:00
subject: RE: recognizing other loaded programs

From: George De Bruin 
On Tuesday, July 22, 1997 1:39 PM, Chris Antos (Exchange) 
[SMTP:chrisant@Exchange.MICROSOFT.com] wrote:
> it is possible to detect that a program is running.
Could you Email me the API calls needed for this when you get a chance?  (I 
would dearly love to be able to something like this from a macro.)
> however, the only way to "connect" to an already running program is for
> that program to specifically support that.  for example, gsview would
> have to have some command-line flag that told it to reuse an
> already-running copy instead of launching a totally new copy.
I *think* all that Sjoerd really wants to be able to do here is something 
like 
this:
	- Examine the task list to see if gsview is already running.
	- Generate the necessary messages to bring GSview to the foreground / 
restore 
it (if minimized).
	- Generate the necessary system messages to force 95 to shift focus from TSE 
to gsview.
                           George J. De Bruin
                       SemWare Technical Support
 
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