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Subject: Re: losing mouse events with think c and apple events
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From: bjb@pyramid.com (Bruce Beare)
Date: 28 May 91 17:44:01 GMT
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In article <1991May24.184612.29592@neon.Stanford.EDU> joel@neon.Stanford.EDU 
(Joel R Tornatore) writes:
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> From: joel@neon.Stanford.EDU (Joel R Tornatore)
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> Subject: losing mouse events with think c and apple events
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> I am developing an application that uses apple events. It runs
> normally when run as an application, but when I run it under think
> c's debugger, all mouse down events are somewhat lost. By somewhat
> lost I mean that I get the mouse down, but all my tracking routines
> just exit immediately because StillDown() is false. MenuSelect(pt)
> returns immediately, too. Has anyone had such a problem?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> joel
> joel@cs.stanford.edu

I also had that problem. I worked around it by changing my StillDown() to
Button() when debugging.

Bruce
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