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From: rothberg@polya.Stanford.EDU (Edward Rothberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MultiFinder and the event mask
Message-ID: <3469@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Aug 88 17:32:29 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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Thanks for all the responses to the Ticks question.  I'm convinced; I'll use
the TickCount() trap call.

I've also become convinced that MultiFinder doesn't deal with the foreground
application's event mask properly.  I have an application where I need to
receive keyUp events.  I call SetEventMask() with the appropriate parameter.
My application works perfectly with UniFinder, and it works just fine when
I'm running alone (just it and the Finder) in MultiFinder.  However, when I
start up another application in the background, the foreground application
starts losing keyUp events.  My guess as to what's happening is that my
application is getting switched out, and MultiFinder is substituting the
background application's event mask for mine.  Anyone know what's going on and
how to get around it?

Thanks,

Ed Rothberg
rothberg@polya.stanford.edu