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. 

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

Well, I guess it is a matter of opinion.  The method I suggested uses only
documented facilities, it is true.  I guess the reason it seems convoluted
to me is that I am not certain if you are always guaranteed that the
PROTSHELL (PMSHELL.EXE) is session 1.  IBM says in the docs that it is, but
you could someday run into a system which uses MSHELL.EXE or TSHELL.EXE as
the PROTSHELL, and I am not sure what would happen.

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

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

Good luck.

-- Mike


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