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From: robinson@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting Events in GetNextEvent patch
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Date: 13 Nov 90 16:33:12 GMT
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In article <14605@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes:
> In article <998@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> robinson@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (John Robinson) writes:
> >I am working on an init that pops up a dialog window when you hit a
> >user-definable key sequence.  I accomplish this by patching GetNextEvent
> >and looking for the appropiate event in the Event Queue.  If it is there,
> >I pop-up my window.  How should I go about getting subsquent events for
> >my dialog should I manually look throught the event queue for mouse-down
> >events and the like.
>
> [Stuff Deleted...]
>
> During your popup dialog, you just can call GetNextEvent.
>  

But will this cause problems.  I don't want to allow a context-switch under
MultiFinder while the dialog is popped up.  Can this happen if I use
GetNextEvent.  I remember reading something about putting some magic value
in the windowkind attribute of a window to disallow a context-switch when
that window was frontmost am I on the right track.

Thanks for your help.

John