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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dealing with lots of messages  (WARNING!!! Intution bug!!)
Message-ID: <22458@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 88 19:28:25 GMT
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Reply-To: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Organization: The Logic Foundation
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Keywords: messages IDCMP MOUSEMOVE, intuition bug, workaround, ReportMouse()


How could this be!  I posted this horrid bug, and forgot to give a
workaround!  What is this world comming to?

It's quite simple, since gadgets are the cause of the problem, we'll
only call ReportMouse() when none are active:

long key;
	...
	key=LockIBase(0L); /* Wait utill Intuition is not busy, then lock */
	ReportMouse(boolean,Window);
	UnlockIBase(key);


Tomas Rokicki pointed out that ModifyIDCMP() could also be used for this
function.  I plugged it into the program I had that was failing, and sure
enought it works ok.  ModifyIDCMP() does not need the LockIBase() kludge.

		Thanks Tomas!

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