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From: bhil@ohs.UUCP (Brian T. Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Movable-modal dialogs
Message-ID: <557@ohs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 02:25:46 GMT
Organization: Orem High School, Orem, Utah
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I recently downloaded the movable-modal WDEF from apple.com and put it into
a program of mine.  As I prepared to do so, I wondered how the user would
be able to switch applications in MultiFinder if I didn't allow them to
click outside the dialog window.  When I got the program running (I was
using THINK C 4.0 with its debugger) I found that there wasn't a problem:
MultiFinder caught the mouseclick before I got an event for it.  In fact,
I never got an event for it.  Well, that was cool, until I ran it without
the debugger.  This time, when I had the movable-modal up and I clicked on
the MultiFinder icon, I got 9 (yes, NINE) events for it!  After I got the
events (which led to 9 SysBeep() calls) it finally swapped applications.
I rebooted and the same thing happened.  The same thing happens when I
build the application to disk and run it.  The only time it doesn't happen
is when I'm using the THINK C debugger.

Why is MultiFinder giving me the mouseclick event?  Why is it giving it to
me nine times?

I know this isn't really a big problem, but I'd like to solve it before we
start our BETA sites next week.

Brian T. Hill
trACE(tm) Software Development
bhil@ohs.uunet.uu.net
bhil@ohs.uucp