lock messages (was send ___ to me in ___ sec)

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Apr 26 11:17:01 EDT 2002


Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> A non-zero 
> "wait...with messages" within a lock-unlock of messages will allow 
> sent messages, but will consume and throw away gui events even 
> those generated before the lock.  Events that come in after the 
> "wait...with messages" will evoke handlers.

That's what I'd expect. Locking messages would lock out all the events 
in the native queue (what you called the "GUI" events, which is as good 
a description as any,) while still allowing a script's custom "sent" 
events to go through. I should have clarified my original post better.

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