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Re: Modal event processing
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Re: Modal event processing


  • Subject: Re: Modal event processing
  • From: Charlie Dickman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:29:08 -0400

Correct, by your say so, or not if the timers don't drive the program it just sits there and does nothing. Human intervention is required to configure it or cause it to quit.

On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Graham Cox wrote:

>
> On 06/07/2012, at 5:57 AM, Charlie Dickman wrote:
>
>> I have a demonstration app that is basically operating on a 0.15 second timer loop. The problem I am having is that even with a periodic timer going off it is very difficult to get menu events and mouse clicks in window controls through to be processed. I have tried setting up an additional flow of events using
>> (NSEvent) + (void)startPeriodicEventsAfterDelay:(NSTimeInterval)delaySecondswithPeriod:(NSTimeInterval)periodSeconds
>>
>> as well as
>>
>> [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate: [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow: t != 0. ? t * 1.01 : .01]]
>>
>> (where t can be set arbitrarily but is typically called with a value of 0.15) but none of this improves response. Is there anything else to try?
>
>
> Well, you could try writing your app correctly, rather than polling and running the event loop manually.
>
> What are you trying to do? Why can't you let the event loop run normally?
>
>
> --Graham

Charlie Dickman
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