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trindflo@fishnet.net wrote:
> 
> Could somebody help me with a tricky session manager question?  I am
> attempting to find the "initial" Title field of a task as displayed
> in the Window List or Task List which is displayed when Ctl-Esc is
> typed.  Session Manager yields some of this information with the
> WinQuerySwitchList function, but the szSwtitle which is returned is
> replaced with the name of the currently running program in the case of
> an OS/2 Full-Screen or Window.  WinQueryWindowText always yields the
> same text.  Both the initial task name and the currently running program
> are displayed in the Window List, but I have been unable to get this
> window to return this string using LM_QUERYITEMTEXT.  TIA.
> 
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 I can't tell what you're asking for here, but I think I have an answer
for you anyway. Years ago I wrote an app which would always show you the
titlebar of whatever object had the focus. I'll see if I can did it up
and send the source to you. With a little tweaking I think it will do
what you want.

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In article <353665BC.15FB@austin.ibm.nospam.com>,
Jim Lewis <jklewis@austin.ibm.nospam.com> wrote:
>trindflo@fishnet.net wrote:
>> 
>> Could somebody help me with a tricky session manager question?  I am
>> attempting to find the "initial" Title field of a task as displayed
>> in the Window List or Task List which is displayed when Ctl-Esc is typed.
>
> I can't tell what you're asking for here, but I think I have an answer
>for you anyway. Years ago I wrote an app which would always show you the
>titlebar of whatever object had the focus. I'll see if I can did it up
>and send the source to you. With a little tweaking I think it will do
>what you want.

Jim,

Thanks for responding.  I think that I am getting this text (the title
bar text) with WinQueryWindowText.  Unfortunately, it is also changed to
the name of the currently running program.

I have created ICONs which I use to start full-screen sessions in
various sub-directories with whatever settings are appropriate.  When I
launch one of these ICONs, the ICON/Program-Object title from the
General page of the settings notebook is entered as the session title in
the Window List.  This is the string I am looking for.  When I run a
program in this session the session title in the Window List changes to
the name of the program which is running.  I have found two or three
different ways to ask for this sort of information and it always seems
to yield the name of the program which is running.  I was able to
determine the name of the program which was initially running in the
session (CMD or in my case 4OS2), but I have not been able to get at the
title.

I just got through attempting to access the information with container
controls and found that the task list window does not respond to a
CM_QUERYCNRINFO command.

I don't think that the Workplace shell wants me to do things this way.
It is trivial to attach an object-ID (a <str> identifier) to a program
ICON and control the program that way.  Unfortunately, this would
preclude controlling multiple sessions which had been started with the
same ICON (many attempts to control would start a new session).  This
"Create a new session" behavior is the default for the OS/2 Full Screen
ICON, as an example.  What I am looking for is a way to identify the
origin of a session.  Since the information I am looking for is
displayed in a window (the task list), I have been assuming that I could
get at it.

Thanks again to you and the others who responded.

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