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From: hadjiyia@cat3.cs.wisc.edu (Simos Hadjiyiannis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Copybits & GetNextEvent questions..
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Date: 26 Nov 90 18:40:13 GMT
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 A couple of questions:

 1. I have heard of a tech note on speeding Copybits, but can't seem to
    locate it. Does anyone know where I can get it from (I heard that it
    was #277, but there is no such tn at apple.com...), or could mail
    me a copy? Please? Pretty please?...

 2. I am writing an arcade game for the Mac ( for the past four months..)
    and I was wondering if there is anything wrong with NOT fetching events.
    I can read the keyboard using GetKeys and the KeyMap structure, so I don't
    really need GetNextEvent (or WaitNextEvent...) & it DOES speed up the code.
    Finding out if a menu has been selected is one problem of course ( the 
    only one that I can see actually...) but that should not be difficult
    to solve...

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 Simos Hadjiyiannis
 "I go down to Speaker's Corner, I' m thunderstruck,
  they got free speech, tourists, police in trucks,
  two men say they are Jesus, one of them must be wrong..."