Frontmost pubscreen?

How do I find out what pubscreen is the frontmost?

I have a window I like to open on the frontmost pubscreen but the pubscreen list has WB as its first entry which probably means it isn't sorted depth-wise.

Using IIntuition->LockScreenList() the first screen is the front most one. Use other means to check if it's a public one or not.

I don't know if it's guaranteed to be like that in future. Maybe it would be nice if there will be a new function in Intuition to get the front most screen always.

IntuitionBase->FirstScreen (better lock IBase while you read it).

@TSK

Problem is I need it to work on Classic, hence the post in the Classic forum. LockScreenList() is V50, otherwise I would have used it

@centaurz

mmm, so hacking away it is then

Finally made it work. One version for OS4 with LockScreenList() & GetScreenAttr() and one for the others with LockPubScreenList() and some hacking.

@Deniil

You mean a straightforward and elegant way of accessing information . No need for weird accessor such as IIntuition->GiveMeFrontmostScreenPlease().

@deniil
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Oops my mistake. I didn't check which forum this is.

There's a tool "FrontPubScreen" on Aminet with source code. Compiled it on OS4 a while back and it works really well.

If I remember right, even if you're running the program from an active shell window while actually on another screen (i.e so you cannot see the shell window you're typing in), when you switch screens to check what the shell output is, it will have printed the name of the screen you were actually looking at, and not the screen the shell window is on.

@MickJT

Cool! I tested my solution this way and it worked the same way :)

@centaurz

Hmm, well One may want to be able to move the OS into the future as well. Perhaps going 64-bit? Doing it this way ensures that will be as difficult as possible....