New topic: How to know what window is active
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=47937> Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message MaxMBJ Post subject: How to know what window is activePosted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:55 am Joined: Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:47 am Posts: 129 I should know this but I don't: how can I tell which window is presently active (or perhaps better stated, has the focus)? Top timhare Post subject: Re: How to know what window is activePosted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:30 pm Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:21 pm Posts: 12361 Location: Portland, OR USA Window(0) is the topmost of your windows, and would be the one with focus if your app has focus. But it doesn't tell you which of the many apps running on the machine has focus. Finding that is platform specific and requires a different mechanism for each platform. Top HMARROQUINC Post subject: Re: How to know what window is activePosted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:44 pm Joined: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:11 pm Posts: 573 Location: Guatemala, Central America I've handled this many different ways but a simple approach I've used is to have a global property that is updated each time a window gets focus, something like App.ActiveWindow and check against it when I need to find out which was the last window that got focus. Yup, not elegant but for simple stuff it works for me. _________________ Future RS guru. Ride the world! Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] -- Over 1500 classes with 29000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in collection. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v9.3. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml [email protected]
