hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) (01/10/91)
[jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:]
[] ... {stuff deleted} ...
[] Using StillDown to track the loop is extremely unfriendly to other
[] multifinder applications. A terminal program that relies on being
[] called regularly might fail a download just because the user is
[] holding down the mouse button. (Or maybe the mouse button is pressed
[] down by an object that is "temporarily stored on the mouse.")
[]
[] Let's put a stop to programs that fail to allow background tasking
[] less than 10 times per second. The only reason why an application
[] will not allow background tasks should be when the user is selecting
[] from a menu (a menu manager menu).
this is a naive thought but is there any chance that future Mac OS's
will rewrite the toolbox such that things like StillDown() will be
MultiFinder friendly? after all, apple is enforcing MultiFinder
usage as of system 7.0.
-dave-
hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu