NAME

foreground − keeps a graphical process in the foreground

SPECIFICATION

C
foreground()

FORTRAN
subroutine foregr

Pascal
procedure foreground

DESCRIPTION

Call foreground before calling winopen or getport. It keeps the process in the foreground, so that you can interact with it from the keyboard.  winopen normally runs a process in the background.  When the process is in the foregound, it interacts in the usual way with the UNIX input/output routines. 

SEE ALSO

getport, winopen Using mex , Chapter 2, Programming with mex

NOTE

This routine is available only in immediate mode. 

Version 3.6  —  December 20, 1987