flushEvents("system")

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 3:56 PM -0500 3/21/2014, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>The dictionary says flushEvents("system") ignores operating system 
>events. Does anyone know which events those might be?


If I'm remembering right, flushEvents("system") called flushEvents() 
on Mac OS, which in turn removed low-level events from the OS event 
queue (as opposed to the engine's queue) - mouse, keyboard, 
disk-insert. I'm not sure what, if anything, it did on other 
platforms.

It was one of those things that was inherited from SuperCard.

I'm not entirely sure it does anything now - the flushEvents call has 
been deprecated in OS X for a while.
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jeanne a. e. devoto
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