Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!apple!dan From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: event times Message-ID: <19780@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 1 Nov 88 02:49:44 GMT References: Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 17 In article marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) writes: > >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. HyperCard does not present such low-level information. I admit that there is sometimes a considerable delay between the posting of an event and its processing, something which we are trying to improve. In the meantime you probably will need to write an XCMD to snif the event queue. Calling EventAvail would probably be a good bet... Dan Allen Software Explorer Apple Computer