Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!mitel!uunet!munnari!jkjl
From: jkjl@munnari.oz (John Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Multifinder: how do I patch GetNextEvent?
Message-ID: <2451@munnari.oz>
Date: 10 Oct 88 07:57:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: munnari.2451
References: <747@ttrdf.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
Lines: 14
Summary: WaitNextEvent !

In article <747@ttrdf.UUCP>, fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen ) writes:
> 
>    What is the proper way to patch the GetNextEvent() trap for
> compatibility with MultiFinder?.  I have created an INIT that
> patches this call. The first thing that the patch does is call the
> old GetNextEvent, (the one that was there at INIT time.). 
> 

Have you patched WaitNextEvent. Some programs call WaitNextEvent exclusively,
ignoring GetNextEvent. However WaitNextEvent calls GetNextEvent. This might
cause the timing of the events to go out of synch as described in my message
to lsr@Apple.

	john lim