Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!uhura!saaf From: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lennart Saaf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Updating window of non-current stack? Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 90 18:00:05 GMT References: Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Organization: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester Lines: 18 In-reply-to: bw10+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 23 Oct 90 14:42:02 GMT >>>>> On 23 Oct 90 14:42:02 GMT, bw10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Blake D. Ward) said: BDW> When running in HC 2.0 with more than one stack open, can anyone tell me BDW> how to get the window for the non-active stack to update without doing a BDW> complete context switch to that stack (which takes a few seconds)? It BDW> seems that you can change the contents of the visible card of that BDW> stack, but the changes don't show up on the screen until that stack BDW> becomes the active one. Any ideas? How about putting your update tasks in an idle handler in the non-active stack? Then make sure that the active stack passes along all idle messages. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Len Saaf, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY | | Internet: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu Bitnet: SAAF@UOROPT | ------------------------------------------------------------------------