: More send in time

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/30/03 10:22 PM, Dar Scott wrote:


> So maybe the mouseLoc is discouraged, or maybe it has just been running 
> with the wrong crowd.

A brief history: Long ago and once upon a time, Scott Raney used to 
admonish us not to tie up the CPU with unnecessary mouse polling. It 
came up often enough that I wrote it up and posted it at my web site. 
Now he just points people there instead. ;)

<http://www.hyperactivesw.com/polling.html>

>> So what is so bad about using it then, except for using it in a loop?
>>
>> I guess it's the loop that causes the tieup using it, which can be 
>> done away
>> with by the 'send in time' routines. Is this true?
> 
> 
> The send-in-time allows other things to be going on at the same time.

Right, that's pretty much the crux of it.

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