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- From: den@cci632.cci.com (Dennis J. Buttery)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Listview -vs- Intuiticks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.213103.3388@cci632.cci.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:31:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.131900.5867@cci632.cci.com> <36779@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY
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- >
- >If you try to limit your postings to 80 colums (instead of hundreds),
- >more people could read them... Now back to the question:
- >
- Sorry, I wasn't aware that was happening! Everything looked fine from
- my end of things. Hope this is better, I am using hard returns now!!
-
- >>I took a romp through the RKM's and found that the IDCMP_LISTVIEW flag
- >>is sub-defined with the INTUITICKS flag. My question is... How can I use
- >>Listview gadgets without getting this stream of INTUITICKS waking up
- >>the application??????
- >
- >You must be able to handle INTUITICKS. Fortunately, a well-written
- >event loop has no problem handling (in your case, basically ignoring)
- >INTUITICKS at the relatively slow rate (10 a second) that they arrive.
- >
- >Unless you're doing something upon every message without first checking
- >to see if it's a class you really care about, there shouldn't be a problem.
-
- I am handling the INTUITICKS as they are received. It just doesn't seem very
- practical though to have my application wake-up each time one is received.
- Especially, since they are only there because of the Listview gadget.
- BTW - I am using the GT_GetIMsg function in place of the regular GetMsg. which
- I thought was designed to consume these unwanted event signals??
-
- -DJB-
-