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Re: Live content questions

On 28 Nov 2003 18:42:45, Dario Accornero <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 28 Nov 2003, at 17:27, Erik Dahlstrom wrote:
>
>> I'll take an example instead: I have a networking thread that posts
>> events to the main event queue and those events are picked up by an
>> eventhandler that only handles that kind of event. When a menu is down
>> I get no events in that eventhandler even though the network thread
>> still posts events. (For debugging I set a global flag when
>> menutracking begins and I clear it when menutracking ends. When the
>> flag is set I get no events in my eventhandler.)
>
> That is indeed strange, and it would seem to imply that standard menu
> tracking does not use one of the TrackMouseLocation APIs -- I guess
> only Eric or someone from HIToolbox could confirm this -- or that
> non-system events are not dispatched during menu tracking...

No events are fetched from the event queue and dispatched during
menu tracking. APIs like TrackMouseLocation or MenuSelect or
TrackControl or WaitMouseUp had been always behaved so.

[That would be great if Eric or someone from HIToolbox could shed
light on this (or they already did, and I being in the digest mode
just don't see it).]

Mike
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