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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Questions about multitasking on the mac
Message-ID: <1991May12.150246.6287@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 12 May 91 15:02:46 GMT
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Calling WaitNeXTEvent and the DoEvent stuff fromwithin your program
code "often" seems to be the way that multitasking is done on the Mac.
Is this the way that ZTerm manages to do it's thing and yet be
backgroundable?  I notice that Compactor Pro also is "backgroundable"
in the sense that you can compact files and throw the thing into the
background by bringing a new application up front and still have
compactor do its thing.  Is this the way Compactor implements this
behavior?  Just call WaitNeXTEvent and the DoEvent servicing stuff
inside a convenient  loop in the compaction algorithm?