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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
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Subject: how big "Sleep" param in WaitNextEvent?
Keywords: sleep multifinder waitnextevent event manager
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.112331.17941@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 11:23:31 GMT
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I was wondering what "sleep" values most people send to WaitNextEvent?

I have perused Apple's _Programmer's_Guide_To_Multifinder_ and seen the
example program there (which sets the sleep parameter to MAXLONG (is that
0xffffffff?) unless the application is in the foreground and its frontmost
window has a TextEdit record that needs to flash a caret, in which case the
value returned by GetCaretTime() is used).

Any suggestions?  Please e-mail responses and I'll post a summary.  Thanks


Erik A. Johnson, Graduate Student        \ Internet:  johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering  \
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \ AmericaOnline: ErikAJ

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