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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Notifier question
Keywords: Windows
Message-ID: <23409@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Apr 89 04:15:28 GMT
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Original-Date: 4 Apr 89 16:33:27 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 251, message 6 of 14

How do I "poll" the nofier while I am in a tight processing loop? I want
to check for a menu selection or button event so the user can quit the
operation if he(she) doesn't want to wait 3 minutes for it to complete.

What I am doing is simply. . .

main()
{

 . . .

 window_main_loop();

}

do_some_funky_stuff_notifier_proc()
{

   for(i=0;i<A_FEW_ZILLION;I++) 
   {
      [what can I do here to handle normal notifier events?]
   }
}


I tried to put an explicit call to notify_dispatch() in the loop, since
that is supposed check for events and call the appropriate routines, but
I gather if we're already in a notifier proc, the notifier event handling
is blocked to prevent us from attepting some recursive nonsense.


          *** mike (cerbral GURU, insert M&Ms to restart) smithwick***
"Oh, I'm just a NOP in the instruction set of life, oh, ohhhh, hmmmmm"

[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]