From d7c17237420e68e298aa549fb671ad17d6afebc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:31:11 +0000
Subject: Added a method WMAvailable(). This will return True if and only if
 there is a window manager and we can connect to it, i.e. if it is safe to try
 and put up windows.

As a side effect the first call will make the current process frontmost.
---
 Mac/Modules/macosmodule.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Mac/Modules/macosmodule.c b/Mac/Modules/macosmodule.c
index 5b445c0..8018839 100644
--- a/Mac/Modules/macosmodule.c
+++ b/Mac/Modules/macosmodule.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 #include <Events.h>
 #else
 #include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>
 #endif
 
 static PyObject *MacOS_Error; /* Exception MacOS.Error */
@@ -521,6 +522,47 @@ MacOS_SysBeep(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 	return Py_None;
 }
 
+static char WMAvailable_doc[] = 
+	"True if this process can interact with the display."
+	"Will foreground the application on the first call as a side-effect."
+	;
+
+static PyObject *
+MacOS_WMAvailable(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	static PyObject *rv = NULL;
+	
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, ""))
+		return NULL;
+	if (!rv) {
+#if TARGET_API_MAC_OSX
+		ProcessSerialNumber psn;
+		
+		/*
+		** This is a fairly innocuous call to make if we don't have a window
+		** manager, or if we have no permission to talk to it. It will print
+		** a message on stderr, but at least it won't abort the process.
+		** It appears the function caches the result itself, and it's cheap, so
+		** no need for us to cache.
+		*/
+		if (CGMainDisplayID() == 0) {
+			rv = Py_False;
+		} else {
+			if (GetCurrentProcess(&psn) < 0 ||
+				SetFrontProcess(&psn) < 0) {
+				rv = Py_False;
+			} else {
+				rv = Py_True;
+			}
+		}
+#else
+		rv = Py_True;
+#endif
+	}
+	Py_INCREF(rv);
+	return rv;
+}
+
 static char GetTicks_doc[] = "Return number of ticks since bootup";
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -672,6 +714,7 @@ static PyMethodDef MacOS_Methods[] = {
 	{"DebugStr",			MacOS_DebugStr,		1,	DebugStr_doc},
 	{"GetTicks",			MacOS_GetTicks,		1,	GetTicks_doc},
 	{"SysBeep",			MacOS_SysBeep,		1,	SysBeep_doc},
+	{"WMAvailable",			MacOS_WMAvailable,		1,	WMAvailable_doc},
 #if !TARGET_API_MAC_OSX
 	{"FreeMem",			MacOS_FreeMem,		1,	FreeMem_doc},
 	{"MaxBlock",		MacOS_MaxBlock,		1,	MaxBlock_doc},
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