Process Management Information
System 7.0 provides support for process management. Your application can
get information about any currently running process, including your own. For
example, for a specified process, you can find the application's name, type and
signature; the number of bytes in the process partition, the number of free
bytes in the application heap, the application that launched the process, and
other information. Your application can also launch other applications and desk
accessories.
When a user opens a desk accessory in System 7.0, the Operating System
launches the desk accessory in its own partition. When a desk accessory is
open, the Finder puts the name of the desk accessory in the list of open
applications in the Application menu, and also gives the active desk accessory
its own About command in the Apple menu that includes the name of the desk
accessory. This makes the user interface for desk accessories more consistent
with the user interface of small applications.
You can achieve greater control over other applications using the
information about other applications, and launch other applications without
terminating your own application. Your application can also receive
notification if any application that it has launched terminates.
System 7.0 provides greater support for launching applications and
documents at startup. All desktop objects in the Startup Items folder are
automatically opened at startup. All background applications in the Extensions
folder are launched early in the startup sequence before the Finder is started.
Background applications generally perform a specific task and are invisible to
the user. The Startup Items folder and Extensions folder are located inside the
System Folder.
and getting information on currently running processes.