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- From: shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley [CSC])
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: [NXApp run]
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.092051@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 25 Aug 1992 14:20:51 GMT
- Sender: shirley@fdr (Bill Shirley [CSC])
- Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/JSC
- Lines: 39
- Originator: shirley@fdr
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- Does the -run method of Application NEED to be invoked.
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- I need a little bit more control over the event loop.
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- (NO, I didn't design it poorly, I didn't design it. I am trying
- to integrate an old program into a NeXTSTEP environment.)
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- The program I'm trying to write a front end for (it was command line)
- calls a function that is equivalent to getc, and this function needs
- to return a character, probably dispatching other events while waiting
- for the character to come in.
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- It's easy to get an event, but if I didn't wan't it how can I dispatch
- it?
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- there's [NXApp getEvent: mask: threshhold:]
- (I don't have my manuals in front of me and I know
- that's wrong but you get the gist)
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- Ok, I can limit the events to KEYPRESS, but what if it's a command-key
- or a control-key, or alt-key,...
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- Is there a way to dispatch these event's that I didn't want to get?
- Should I peek and then take?
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- Is it ok never to call [NXApp run] and deal with all your events otherwise?
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- It would be nice if there was an [NXApp dispatch:event].
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- pondering...
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- --
- Bill Shirley | ``Computer Science is not about computers any
- shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov| more than astronomy is about telescopes.''
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- --
- Bill Shirley | ``Computer Science is not about computers any
- shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov| more than astronomy is about telescopes.''
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