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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Questions about multitasking on the mac
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Date: 13 May 91 18:21:55 GMT
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In article <1991May12.150246.6287@potomac.ads.com>, jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
> behavior?  Just call WaitNeXTEvent and the DoEvent servicing stuff
> inside a convenient  loop in the compaction algorithm?

The alternative (which seems cleaner) is to drive a state machine
within the event loop. This is how uAccess works for all of its 
communications, background or foreground. There are, however, still
a few spots where inner loops call WaitNextEvent().

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