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From: dgehringer@sun.com (Doug Gehringer)
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Subject: Re: Sunview windows & SIGALARMs
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Date: 6 Jun 90 20:53:30 GMT
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In article <8553@brazos.Rice.edu> pvo@sapphire.oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill) writes:
>THE PROBLEM:
>
>If the cursor is removed from the Sunview panel, or the panel is closed,
>the SIGALARMs stop and no more data is grabbed or analyzed.  Returning to
>the panel doesn't restart the SIGALARMs.  

Are you using the notifier to handle your alarms?  See section 17 of the
Sunview Programmers Guide (in the 4.0 docs, around pg. 291, in 4.1, pg.
265).  You can't use timers and signals directly, you need to send them
through the notifer. 

  - Doug Gehringer, Graphics Software 
    Sun Microsystems, Mail stop 21-04
    (415) 336-6472 or 960-1300 dgehringer@sun.COM