rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu (09/27/89)
The other day I posted about a problem concerning the system event mask and the Finder. I had written a program which altered the event mask to prevent MouseUp events from being posted, rather than just having my program ignore them. I couldn't remember why I disabled certain events, but as I was looking over Stephen Chernicoff's Macintosh Revealed I discovered why I did such a thing. He writes: >In general, it's a good idea to disable any type of event you know your >program has no use for, to conserve space in the event queue . . . Don't follow this advice, unless you reset the event mask when your program loses control of the system. You can always just ignore events you don't want to process (like autokey events for instance), and not run into too much trouble. Aside from this, I think Chernicoff's books (volumes 1 and 2 especially) are an excellent introduction to Macintosh programming. --- Randall Cook RCook%eagle@wesleyan.bitnet RCook@eagle.wesleyan.edu