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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIGS programming question
Message-ID: <32581@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 89 20:17:18 GMT
References: <9607@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <9607@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HARTKOPF JEFFREY M) writes:
>[...] when
>the program gets back to the main event loop it interprets that mouse press
>as part of the event queue and acts accordingly, which I don't want.  What I
>want it to do is use that mouse press to close the window, and then NOT add
>it to the event queue.  Is there some way to do this?  Thanks a lot.

You can't stop the mouseDown event from being added to the queue, but you
can certainly *use* it from the queue--this is probably the most reasonable
thing to do.  I guess you're just calling Button(0) right now to check the
button status.  Instead, call GetNextEvent (with a pointer to some space to
use as the event record) until it returns a mouseDown event.  Using $ffff
for the event mask is probably fine--if you mask out other events, they will
be saved up & used later (you probably don't want keypresses that come along
to be kept and used later, so just ask for all events & ignore the ones you
don't want).

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