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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Detecting Idle
Keywords: screen dimmer logout idle
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Date: 2 Jun 89 19:43:47 GMT
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In article <1560@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> lih@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih) writes:
>
>	if (mMoved(&auStg->gMouse) ||
>		EventAvail(keyDown|keyUp|autokey,&theEvt)) {
>		auStg->aTick=0;
>		return(false);
>	}
Other people have pointed out the larger flaws in your scheme. Here is
your programming error:
the EventAvail() line should read:
		EvantAvail(keyDownMask|keyUpMask|autoKeyMask, &theEvt)) {


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