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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Floating windows and gophers
Message-ID: <1991May2.151929.29624@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 2 May 91 15:19:29 GMT
References: <6176@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <6176@trantor.harris-atd.com>, by dfranck@x102c.harris-atd.com (franck deniz 01591):
> I have created 2 (with the potential of multiple) floating windows
> in an appliction.  I want a ~periodic~ method to be executed within
> each window (ex print a string to the window) simultaneously, or at
> least appear that way to the user (it is not necessarily the same
> string) .  I am currently doing this by overwriting the dwadle()
> method. However, I have noticed that in CApplication that Idle()
> executes dwadle only along a single object's chain of command (ie first
> the objects gopher, then its supervisor, on up the bureacacy), but 
> does not go horizontally to other objects...

What you may want to do is put your floater updates into CChores,
attached to gApplication->itsIdleChores, and override the Application's
Dawdle() to ensure that the Chores get time often enough.  If you're
concerned about "simutaneity," zap both floaters from a single Chore.

This may not be the only way, but it works...
-- 

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com