RE: How to reach the ctlSelectEvent

2001-08-30 Thread Danny Epstein
It sounds like you might want to use a progress dialog. Read about the Progress Manager in the docs for details. You just call PrgHandleEvent and deal with aborting when you learn that the user pressed the Cancel button. The Progress Manager uses a callback, so it's a little tricky. Still, I'm sur

Re: How to reach the ctlSelectEvent

2001-08-30 Thread Steve Mann
>I can read both the keyDownEvent and the appStopEvent, but for some reason >the ctlselectevent never reaches me. Certain events are only added to the queue when the system receives a certain sequence of events that you don't handle. For instance, a penDown event can create a ctlEnter event, wh

Re: How to reach the ctlSelectEvent

2001-08-30 Thread GB
First of all I have no knowledge of why some events would occur while others would not (maybe the UI components are in the same kernel thread as the apps??), but can you look for a penDown over the coordinates of the button to do the same thing? GB "Mattias Nylén" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in m

How to reach the ctlSelectEvent

2001-08-30 Thread Mattias Nylén
Hi I'm programming an app where I do an extensive database search. To save time I leave my ordinary eventloop to make the search faster (some thousands of records might take a while). To be able to detect if the user wants to stop the search I still have to read incoming events. For some reason I