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From: mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
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Subject: Re: Application defined events in Multifinder
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Date: 23 Feb 91 16:14:02 GMT
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In article <1991Feb23.140420.20707@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>I can't seem to find any documentation on this one. It appears that
>PostEvent can be called at interrupt, so that I can post app1Evt's
>from asynchronous completetion routines in my program to signal that
>events have occurred. It is not clear, however, how I am to distinguish
>my app1Evt's from those that might be posted by another application
>running under Multifinder, or whether I will see these events at all
>if I have been suspended. Is this documented somewhere, or does anyone
>know what the story is?

I don't know, but I believe Apple is discouraging developers from using
appXEvt's for the purpose you described, since under extreme circumstances,
events may be discarded. Maybe it's better to just set a boolean flag which
is checked in the main event loop.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch
   "These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can 
    even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, _Johnny Mnemonic_