[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] HC stops sending idle msgs after find...help

jgsmith@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (James G. Smith) (01/24/90)

I'm looking for help/advice/consolation on this problem.  In my stack I have an idle handler which captures keyboard commands (using InKey XFCN) and I also have a button which performs a certain kind of find (depending on circumstanc
The problem is that after I do a "find", HyperCard seems to stop sending idle
messages for a few (2-4) seconds.  Everything else works in that interval, just
not my idle handler.  This (bug?) wreaks havoc with the intention of my stack.
Any ideas? Advice?

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(consolation?)