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From: jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Support for background tasks
Message-ID: <1026@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 00:02:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 19
Keywords: GetNextEvent, SystemTask


	I am writing a program using LSC 2.15 which puts up a dialog window
containing a few editText items. The program seems to work flawlessly, 
supporting DA's, it can be switched into the background with Multifinder, etc;
however it won't allow SmartAlarms to announce that an alarm is going off.
Presumably it wouldn't work with Apple's Alarm clock as well, though I
didn't check that.
	I do call SystemTask, and inactive windows are properly updated, and
DA clocks advanced. I also call GetNextEvent in my main loop of course.
My understanding is that GetNextEvent is supposed to check 
for background tasks. 
	Is there a particular ROM routine that GetNextEvent calls to do this?
Is there something simple that I could be doing wrong? How can I check 
to see why SmartAlarms isn't being activated?
			Thanks!
						
				Jim Meiss				
		 		jdm@emx.utexas.edu
				jdm%uta.MFENET@nmfecc.ARPA
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