Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!labrea!polya!rothberg From: rothberg@polya.Stanford.EDU (Edward Rothberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Passing info when transfering Message-ID: <5446@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 88 06:47:41 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 18 I'm writing a piece of software which consists of three applications, with the ability to easily transfer between them. I need to be able to tell if an application is started up via transfer, and if so I want to pass a bit of information from the transfering application to the transferee. Is there an elegant way to do this? Right now, I use the Scrap to pass the info. While this works fine, it has the obnoxious side-effect of wiping out what was previously in the scrap without the user having ever issued a command which would obviously have this effect (i.e. Cut, Copy). It seems that what I want to do is put the info into the system heap, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it identifiable once it's there. I can't make it a simple handle, since the application starting up won't have any way to find it. I can't make it a resource, since then it will get added to the resource file. Is there any good way to do this? Ed Rothberg rothberg@polya.stanford.edu