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From: jwwalker@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Jim Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Problem with GetNextEvent trap patch in MultiFinder
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.202743.19309@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 20:27:43 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.200340.28431@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <9093@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
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In article <9093@dog.ee.lbl.gov> beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
writes:
[stuff deleted]
|The only way to patch GetNextEvent safely, that I've found, is to 
|use a head patch, which basically means, do your patch behaviour, then
|jump directly to the old address.  This part obviously has to be done
|in assembly language.  Exercise for the reader.

What about the good old jGNEFilter global?  It's pretty safe, isn't it?
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  -- Jim Walker 76367.2271@compuserve.com