Re: Name of the Main task

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:

> It is OPERATOR. Its user area is set up in <mcu>\Start.f.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: swiftx-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:swiftx-bounce_at_forth.com]On Behalf
> > Of Noel Henson
> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:16 PM
> > To: swiftx_at_forth.com
> > Subject: [swiftx] Name of the Main task
> >
> >
> > Forth Gods,
> >
> > What is the name of the primary (or initial) task in SwiftX? I have task
> > that needs to access the user variables of the task that is started when
> > SwiftX boots.

On every SwiftX I've seen, OPERATOR is defined after the application
code is loaded, so you won't be able to reference OPERATOR in your
app by name without doing something ugly (i.e.: change load order,
DEFERs, etc.)

If all you care about is getting at OPERATOR's user variables,
here's an easier way: Define a variable in your app called, say,
STARTER. Somewhere in GO, do
   STATUS STARTER !
Then you can reference OPERATOR's user variables thusly:
   STARTER 'TYPE HIS

-- 
Ron Oliver <roliver_at_openesque.com>
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