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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacApp Question (view resources and PoseModally)
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Date: 5 Feb 90 19:33:47 GMT
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In article <131035@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> nano%urbina@Sun.COM (Fernando Urbina) 
writes:

>         BringToFront(fReceiveView.GetWindow.fWMgrWindow);

I would use fReceiveView.GetWindow.Open here.

> 3.  In order to "update" the fReceiveView's TStaticText
>         that contains the communication status, I override
>         PoseModally.  

You could install a co-handler when you bring up the dialog (using 
TApplication.InstallCoHandler).  Cohandlers are subclasses of TEvtHandler 
and if you set their fIdleFreq field, their DoIdle method will get called 
when the application is idle.  (The fIdleFreq is that minimum time between 
calls to DoIdle.)

TApplication.PollEvent calls TApplication.Idle, which gives idle time to 
all objects that need it.

You can also do this processing in your dialog view, by making a subclass 
of TDialogView.  Then you don't have to install a cohandler; as long as 
the dialog is active it's DoIdle method will get called.


Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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