jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) (03/01/88)
I am writing a program using LSC 2.15 which puts up a dialog window containing a few editText items. The program seems to work flawlessly, supporting DA's, it can be switched into the background with Multifinder, etc; however it won't allow SmartAlarms to announce that an alarm is going off. Presumably it wouldn't work with Apple's Alarm clock as well, though I didn't check that. I do call SystemTask, and inactive windows are properly updated, and DA clocks advanced. I also call GetNextEvent in my main loop of course. My understanding is that GetNextEvent is supposed to check for background tasks. Is there a particular ROM routine that GetNextEvent calls to do this? Is there something simple that I could be doing wrong? How can I check to see why SmartAlarms isn't being activated? Thanks! Jim Meiss jdm@emx.utexas.edu jdm%uta.MFENET@nmfecc.ARPA -------------------------------------------------------------------------
raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau) (03/09/88)
In article <1026@ut-emx.UUCP>, jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes: > > Is there a particular ROM routine that GetNextEvent calls to do this? > Is there something simple that I could be doing wrong? How can I check > to see why SmartAlarms isn't being activated? > Thanks! > > Jim Meiss > jdm@emx.utexas.edu > jdm%uta.MFENET@nmfecc.ARPA > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GetNextEvent calls the routine pointed to by jGNEFilter...(as its last step, if I recall...bec. the filter can get the event record). But since you're calling GNE...the alarm clock should work. -- Raymond Lau GEnie: RayLau 100-04 70 Ave. CIS: 76174,2617 Forest Hills, NY 11375-5133 Delphi: RaymondLau United States of America MacNET: RayLau uucp: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (..{phri,cucard,bc-cis,mstan}!dasys1!raylau})
oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (03/18/88)
In article <1026@ut-emx.UUCP>, jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes: > Is there something simple that I could be doing wrong? How can I check > to see why SmartAlarms isn't being activated? Smart Alarms checks specifically that the windowkind of the frontwindow is not dialogkind. If it sees a dialogkind window, it doesn't come up. (Just like multifinder checks that the frontwindow's style is not modaldlgproc. If it is, you can't easily switch.) --- David Phillip Oster --author of Stars Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu -- Uucp: {uwvax,decvax,ihnp4}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu