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From: aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Dialog Box while Printing
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.132149.13651@world.std.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 13:21:49 GMT
References: <11348@bunny.GTE.COM>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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In article <11348@bunny.GTE.COM> CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman) writes:
>This may sound trivial but, honest, I've worked on it every night for a 
>week.  While printing, I want to put up a message like "Press 
>command-period to stop printing."  Should be easy.  I tried an Alert, but 
>that waited for a reply.  So did ModalDialog.  I've tried IsDialogEvent in 
>my main loop, but it never returns a TRUE, even when I click the mouse in 
>the dialog window.

   Have you tried using the pIdleProc in the Job subrecord?  Check
IM II 151-154 for details.  



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