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From: niko@iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Unexpected Update Events
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Date: 29 Apr 91 17:07:44 GMT
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In article <11082@bunny.GTE.COM> CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman) writes:
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>   Using THINK C 4.0, and its Debugger, I've written a short program with 
>three windows open.  With the Debugger, I'm finding that about every 
>second there is an update event generated for one or the other of the 
>second and third windows.  I get all the update events I expect; these are 

I was writing a game and it only had one window.  I had it redraw the
screen every time there was an update event... Same problem!  There
were so many update events that that the screen constantly flickered
while it was doing the updating...

doesn't GetNextEvent remove the event?
Do you HAVE to use the BEGIN UPDATE and END UPDATE procedures to
get it to stop?



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