Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!stevec
From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Background MAGIC (and I don't mean multifinder!!)
Message-ID: <9717@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 90 16:17:22 GMT
References: <23598@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9694@goofy.Apple.COM> <26932@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <26932@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> carlton@draco.berkeley.edu (Mike Carlton) writes:
>In article <9694@goofy.Apple.COM> stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen) writes:
>+In article <23598@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Joe Francis writes:
>+>In article <82899@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> brian e topping writes:
>[...discussion of hooking into jGNEFilter to be called at GetNextEvent time]
>
>Is using jGNEFilter safer or more dangerous than patching GetNextEvent?  I've
>got an init which wants to steal some events.  Right now it patches GNE and
>searchs the event queue and removes the one it wants.  I could instead 
>use jGNEFilter and turn the event I want into a null event before it is 
>returned.
>
>Given that both methods would work for me, which is least likely to break
>when new system software comes out (like, maybe 7.0 :)?  Is there any 
>preference?

Well, I think either way would do.  SuperClock! uses jGNEFilter, and 7.0
hasn't broken it yet...  :-)

steve

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