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From: omh@brunix (Owen M. Hartnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: WaitNextEvent problem(actually "sleep")
Keywords: WaitNextEvent MultiFinder SystemTask
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Date: 6 May 89 03:45:00 GMT
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Does anyone have any idea of what to pass for sleep?  Most code I've seen uses
the GetDblTime call, but without explanation as to why this is (or isn't) good.

Really nice would be recommended values of sleep for 1) responsive applications
(i.e. a Word Processor) 2) background tasks (while the user is thinking, let's
post the daily transaction file.)

-Owen

Owen Hartnett
Brown University Computer Science

omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET