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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: Application defined events in Multifinder
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Date: 28 Feb 91 13:10:39 GMT
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thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken) writes:

>Well, I don't remember offhand where I read this - must've been either
>"Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder" or some technote, but the answer is:
>You can't use app[1-4]evts under MultiFinder, because all events will be passed
>to the foreground application. So if your app is in the background, waiting
>to be notified by an app1evt (to be posted by a VBL task doing some useful
>thing), it can wait forever: the app1evt is sent to the foreground app, which
>will probably ignore it.

This is the second answer I got saying this. Phil Shapiro, from Symantec,
says that each application under MF has it's own event queue and that
I *will* see app1Evt's. And I went through "Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder"
cover to cover and it only said not to use app4Evt's. Can someone get me
a definitive answer?!?!

pr
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