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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Craig Morrison
date: 1995-01-07 02:03:48
subject: Full Screen or Windowed

Mike Bilow wrote in a message to Craig Morrison:

 CM> to tell if a character mode app is running in a window or 
 CM> full screen..

 MB> for a while.  There is only one rather convoluted method I
 MB> could come up with, too. 

  Doesn't sound convoluted at all to me. Uses a perfectly good system call.

 MB> If the process knows it is in the foreground, then it can
 MB> use DosQuerySysInfo() to check QSV_FOREGROUND_FS_SESSION,

  Time to play.. I'll let ya know..

    See ya,

Craig
cam{at}wpc.cioe.com

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