Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!endor!singer From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: LSC 3.0 Message-ID: <5125@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 16 Aug 88 18:55:43 GMT References: <418@metasoft.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA Lines: 26 In article <418@metasoft.UUCP> alan@metasoft.UUCP (Alan Epstein) writes: >there are some hidden menus in THINK C pertaining to Multifinder >awareness. they don't seem to be activate-able in any way i >can figure out. The only such menu that I know of is the menu for setting the flags in the project's SIZE resource; this menu is accessible from the Project Type dialog. >what i'd really like to know is whether compilations can occur >in the BACKGROUND. anyone know? No, and there's no good reason for them to do so. Backgroun compilation is such a CPU-intensive task that it would slow down all of the foreground tasks, and the foreground tasks will slow down compilation, particularly if they don't give sufficient time via correct use of WaitNextEvent. --Rich Rich Siegel Quality Assurance Technician THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp. Internet: singer@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!singer Phone: (617) 275-4800 x305