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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Pyro
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Date: 21 Jul 90 06:20:30 GMT
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Reply-To: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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I am writing an app that I want to be as MultiFinder friendly as possible.
Therefore, when I call WaitNextEvent with a sleep value of 0xFFFFFFFF (the
app doesn't run on Systems with the sleep bug).  Unfortunately, I noticed
that when I do this, Pyro and some other things stop working.  If I move the
mouse to the sleep now corner, Pyro won't activate.  Scope, the magnifying
glass DA, also does not work correctly.

If I call WNE with a smaller sleep value like 10, Pyro and Scope work ok.
Am I correct in diagnosing these problems as bugs in Pyro and Scope?  Is there
anything I can do to avoid problems like these?  Apparently, nobody expected
that MultiFinder would ever sleep for a long time.

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