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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Checking for MF (was Re: Need some MF help)
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Date: 7 Apr 89 02:03:18 GMT
References: <1179@internal.Apple.COM> <2749@pegasus.ATT.COM> <1234@internal.Apple.COM>
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In article <1234@internal.Apple.COM> goldman@apple.com (Phil Goldman) writes:
>In article <2749@pegasus.ATT.COM> ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) 
>writes:
.> This works fine EXCEPT when the application is part of a "Set Startup"
.> set and does not wind up frontmost.  The app is set up in background,
.> and stays in background, but doesn't receive an initial Resume OR 
.Suspend.
 
>MF *does* give background apps a suspend event as the first event.  
>However, like all suspend/resume events the event will be dropped if the 
>app calls _WaitNextEvent/_GetNextEvent/EventAvail with app4 events masked 
>out.  Perhaps this is why your app does not see it.

Or perhape we are all calling GetNextEvent 4 times before actually looking
at the event returned [I forget what this hack was for]?  Or calling
FlushEvents at the start of the App?

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)