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In article <1aY.02kv33t701@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> (Dave Lowrey) writes:
>You assume wrong. The "shell" has opened the window, so I don't
>own it.
>
>The program I am writing puts the Current Directory into the
>title bar. It works now, without ANY locking, but I suspect that
>I am inviting trouble by not preventing other processes from accessing
>the data.

You are correct, you are inviting trouble. Unfortunately there is
no locking mechanisim possible to prevent the trouble you will get
into because there is no way to tell the process that owns the window
that it can't diddle with the window title. Many shells such as WShell
do so, and you will crash them faster than a MiG in Paris. 

As for getting the screen, you realize you can get the window from the
the console.device? Does your program run "under" this Shell? If so then
your stdin should be a lock on the console device and you can query it
to have it return you a pointer to it's window. That may be easier than
querying ibase too. 

You might also want to check out a copy of Wshell and look at the 
title functions it supports, all in all they are pretty wizzy. Of
course as the Shell it thinks it owns the titlebar :-)


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