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From: dlmnm@dcatla.UUCP (Michael N. Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TransSkel update events
Message-ID: <16127@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 20:52:10 GMT
Reply-To: dlmnm@dcatla.UUCP ()
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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I'm trying to use TransSkel for the first time to create an
application. I would like to use a common update procedure
for all windows of a particular type. I plan to keep the 
particulars for a given window in a structure pointed to by
the refCon field of the window record.

The problem is that TransSkel does not provide the window update
procedure with the window pointer. I suppose it assumes the
update procedure is associated with a particular window. For most
events this works fine since FrontWindow can be used to get the
window pointer. In the case where a window other than the one
in front receives an update event, there is no way for the update
procedure to know with which window the event is associated.

Why isn't the window pointer passed as an argument to this procedure?
Or... am *I* missing something?

Any ideas? I could modify my version of TransSkel ... but ...

Comments? Suggestions?

    thanks,
	mike