Re: wait for messages

[Ken Norris (dialup)]

Title: Re: wait for messages

on 2/24/02 6:00 PM, Bob Rasmussen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Can anyone give me some insight about the "wait for messages" command?
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I'm still a long ways from understanding all the new stuff in MC/RR different from HC, but I'm betting if no pending messages exist, it will freeze until RR gets a message, which would explain why the simple handler you wrote continued only after you moved the mouse, which sent a message, of course. If anything sends any message, open a card, move the mouse, type something, any message except idle, the script will take off again as soon as RR gets it. This gives some more control to the user. Everything (but idle) stops right where it is, if they need to answer the phone, stop the coffemaker from boiling over, whatever, but if RR was in the middle of making computations, that would continue. It probably wouldn't suspend computing, but it would stop the rest of the script from running until the user hits a key or moves the mouse, like what happens with a screensaver.

Just a hunch.

Best regards,
Ken N.