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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Support for background tasks
Message-ID: <23323@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 88 05:29:21 GMT
References: <1026@ut-emx.UUCP> <3319@dasys1.UUCP>
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Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster)
Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley
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Keywords: GetNextEvent, SystemTask

In article <1026@ut-emx.UUCP>, jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes:
> Is there something simple that I could be doing wrong? How can I check 
> to see why SmartAlarms isn't being activated?

Smart Alarms checks specifically that the windowkind of the frontwindow is
not dialogkind. If it sees a dialogkind window, it doesn't come up. (Just
like multifinder checks that the frontwindow's style is not modaldlgproc.
If it is, you can't easily switch.)


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