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From: marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: event times
Message-ID: <Oct.24.21.36.58.1988.19507@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 88 01:36:59 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Is there a way in Hypercard to get the actual time that an event
was placed in the event queue? I am specifically interested in mouse clicks.
Hypertalk appears to only provide a reading of the present
time (i.e. the ticks), not the time at which an event occurred.
Given the speed of hypertalk, the present time is not good enough.

Off hand, the only way I can think of doing it is to write an XCMD that
polls (horrors!) the event queue, checking for a mouse up/down using
EventAvail. Upon finding such an event, it would pass it on to
hypercard.

However, such an approach seems somewhat arcane. The event time is in
the queue when hypercard reads it, surely it just doesnt throw it
away.

I am a neophyte at this hypercard game, so if anyone can
help I would appreciate it.

stacy marsella

marsella@aramis.rutgers.edu