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From: bwb@andante.UUCP (Bruce Ballard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MouseDown under MultiFinder
Message-ID: <14327@andante.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 14:50:00 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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I've written some Mac applications in Lightspeed C 3.0
on a MacII and when I run under Multifinder, mouse clicks
on a window that's not owned by my application *seem* to
be generating more than one mousedown event. I've been
less successful than usual at tracking down what's happening
and, if there's a clue in the Programmer's Guide to Multifinder,
I missed it. I currently return from my HandleMouseDown routine
as soon as I detect a "foreign" window, but still I get further
mousedown events, perhaps as many as 9. I have *not* checked
the box that tells the system that I'm "Multifinder-Aware",
since I'm not (but it's fully a "well-behaved" application in
every sense). Can someone suggest where I should focus my
attention to solve the problem? Thanks.
--Bruce Ballard
  bwb@allegra.att.com
PS Thanks to the 9 people who helped with my menu manager problem
   in September: it was universally pointed out that if the system
   can't save the bits behind a pulldown menu, it'll simple generate
   an Update event. Clearly, MultiFinder and color screens can conspire
   to create this situation (as they had in my case).