Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!jmunkki From: jmunkki@santra.HUT.FI (Juri Munkki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: INITs Message-ID: <14535@santra.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 88 07:46:41 GMT References: <278@hodge.UUCP> <13630@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: jmunkki@santra.UUCP Reply-To: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 22 In article <13630@apple.Apple.COM> han@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Byron Han, Licensed To Dream) writes: >In article <278@hodge.UUCP> adail@pnet06.cts.com (Alan Dail) writes: >>I amcurrently writing an INIT that installs abackground reotine by patching >>System Task. This routine could potentially need a large amount of RAM. Is > >backround tasks should probably be installed as a VBL at boot time. you are >not guaranteed to have SystemTask called on a regular basis. > I patch GetNextEvent and Button for background processing in my Monitor Network software. Button is the only trap that can use the memory manager AND that is called regularly when the user is choosing from a menu or dragging an icon. Juri Munkki jmunkki@santra.hut.fi jmunkki@fingate.bitnet P.S. Some time ago, someone requested a "screen slaver" program. Monitor Network is such a program. There's a free demo version (allows only 3 slave macs and one master) that I could post to comp.binaries.mac, if there is enough interest.