effective topstack

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 12:34PM -0700 5/26/03, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
>The "topstack" and "topwindow" functions return the frontmost open stack
>with the lowest mode, which means, if you have two stacks open, the one
>with "cantmodify" set to true will never be the topstack even if it is
>visually in the frontmost window.
>
>Is there another function or way to determine the "effective" topstack
>irrespective of the mode the stack has?

Here's a function:

  function activeWindow
    -- excludes modal dialogs, palettes, menus
    repeat for each line thisWindow in the openStacks
      if the mode of stack thisWindow < 4 then return thisWindow
    end repeat
   return empty
  end activeWindow

>As a workaround it is possible to use the "the stacks" and the
>undocumented "the windows" functions

The windows function (aka the openStacks function) is documented in the
Transcript dictionary.

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