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From: pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Paul C. David)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Process priorities in win386 ?
Message-ID: <11737@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 6 Jun 89 15:16:41 GMT
References: <351@shuldig.huji.ac.il>
Reply-To: pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Paul C. David)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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oferf%shum.UUCP@humus.Huji.AC.IL (ofer faigon) writes:
>I have two programs - one is a Windows aplication (W), the other a DOS
>application (D).  I want to run them together, with W visible and
>covering the whole screen and D in the background.
>At certain times (T) D has to get all or most of the CPU cycles,
>without popping into view.
	Try a method outlined in the Petzold book.
	Somewhere he writes an application requiring a
	background process.  He uses PeekMessage to
	determine that nothing is in the message queue,
	and when it is empty, he dishes off cycles to the
	background process (D).   

-- 
Paul C. David		pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU
California Polytechic State University, San Luis Obispo
"..And they said that the Commodore would stand up to
everything"	-from "Earthgirls are Easy"