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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How can I get Instantaneous Response from an Init that uses GNEfilter to look for keyboard events?
Message-ID: <229@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 90 20:46:54 GMT
References: <1896@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <1896@mountn.dec.com> domenikos@emass1.enet.dec.com (George Domenikos) writes:
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>HOW CAN I GET INSTANTANEOUS RESPONSE FROM THE GNE FILTER?


The key here is that your GNE filter will only get called when GetNextEvent
is called.  For instantaneous response, you will most likely have to go to
a VBL scheme as you suggested.  You are probably aware though that VBL tasks
may not make any toolbox calls that may result in heap compaction.

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