How to get the commodities list like in Scout?

PeterK · 22 November 2018, 00:47

I'm trying to get the task address of the Aros Wanderer, which is started as "WANDERER:Wanderer", but I think such a program path is nothing reliable to search the task list for.

There is also a file manager commodity "Wanderer" which has a reference as "mco_Task" pointing to the process "WANDERER:Wanderer". Since this commodity name seems to be hard-coded, I would prefer to search for that, but how?

PeterK · 22 November 2018, 16:21

In other words, how can I check the system whether the commodity "Wanderer" is running and where are the structures of commodities defined?

I'm trying to solve that in assembler, but any help is appreciated.

After having a look at the sources of Scout I found the code how this list of commodities is generated, but it's not worth all the trouble to do that just for optimizing the support for Wanderer a bit more in my icon.library, except somebody knows a very simple solution.

22 November 2018, 00:47	#1
PeterK Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: digital hell, Germany, after 1984, but worse Posts: 3,376	How to get the commodities list like in Scout? I'm trying to get the task address of the Aros Wanderer, which is started as "WANDERER:Wanderer", but I think such a program path is nothing reliable to search the task list for. There is also a file manager commodity "Wanderer" which has a reference as "mco_Task" pointing to the process "WANDERER:Wanderer". Since this commodity name seems to be hard-coded, I would prefer to search for that, but how?

22 November 2018, 16:21	#2
PeterK Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: digital hell, Germany, after 1984, but worse Posts: 3,376	In other words, how can I check the system whether the commodity "Wanderer" is running and where are the structures of commodities defined? I'm trying to solve that in assembler, but any help is appreciated. After having a look at the sources of Scout I found the code how this list of commodities is generated, but it's not worth all the trouble to do that just for optimizing the support for Wanderer a bit more in my icon.library, except somebody knows a very simple solution. Last edited by PeterK; 22 November 2018 at 19:06.

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