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From: lippin@spam (tom lippincott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Missing deactivate events
Message-ID: <1320@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 02:08:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 02:08:05 1987
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In article <127200007@inmet> lipsett@inmet.UUCP writes:
>However, when I throw an alert box up on
>the screen, deactivate events either are not generated for the windows
>covered by the alert box or else the alert box toolbox routine eats
>them.  As a result, when the alert box is dismissed, the resulting
>activate and update events lose badly, and either the windows are
>displayed wrong or I get a bomb of one kind or another.

I don't know what happens to those events, but it doesn't really matter --
they're not going to show up.  Even if they did show up, they would
be worthless because they couldn't be processed until the alert (actually
any modal dialog) went away, and they'd be just before the activate event.
The simple solution is to hang a flag off the refcon which tells whether
the window is active.  If it is, don't activate it again.

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