Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: A BUG (sort of) in the FINDER (event mask jiggery-pokery) Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 14:10:09 GMT References: <1567@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 17 In-reply-to: rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu's message of 24 Sep 89 19:18:53 GMT In article <1567@eagle.wesleyan.edu> rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: >After some investigation, I discovered that my program sets the system event >mask to disable the posting of MouseUp events, and the Finder needs MouseUps to >process a double click. This is actually documented somewhere--if you change the event mask, you must restore it after you exit. (This changed sometime after system 3.2, I believe.) Also, setting the event mask is discouraged. I think this is related to changes in the way PostEvent and friends work under MultiFinder. +----------------------------------+------------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | | University of Wisconsin--Madison | | +----------------------------------+------------------+ "You are in a twisty little maze of Unix versions, all different."