WOUTPUT() doesn't satisfy your needs ?
Also activating screen is probably to print something. If so you could use _screen.print() instead w/o changing the output,active window.
Cetin

>Yes, those were the commands I referred to in my original message. The problem is that none of them will tell me the name of the currently active window.
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>All I want to do is this:
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>lcOldWindow = WACTIVE()
>ACTIVATE WINDOW SCREEN
>* Run some code
>ACTIVATE WINDOW (lcOldWindow)
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>The problem is that "WACTIVE()" isn't a real command and I don't know what to put there. It just basic save and restore to put things back how I found them. I don't understand why it's such a hard thing to do. Is there no command that will tell me the name of the active window?
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle
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>>Sorry I couldn't get the scenario. woutput() returns output window and wontop() on top one. woutput() might be invisible so check with wvisible() (and probably wexist()).
>>Cetin