[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Null events?

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From: Michael S Kluskens <mkluskens@...>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:06:54 -0500
At 11:31 PM -0500 12/13/01, BMichael@... wrote:
>  >Staz has always said that you should do things like animation during
>>null events, but this only directly applies to PG based programs,
>>right?
>
>No...

Okay, I found them in the reference manual.  I guess I'm not using ON 
EVENT.  Of course the only event I would be interested in would be a 
null event, I use the DIALOG events for everything and don't see a 
need in my program for the more basic events.

>I have typically found them coming "too slow" for my purposes, so
>instead of actually trapping them using ON EVENT, I just do a:

I wondered about that.

>DO
>   HANDLEEVENTS
>   FN doMyIdleStuff
>UNTIL gQuit
>
>That calls "doMyIdleStuff" as fast as possible.

That's what I'm doing right now and wanted a second opinion.

-- 
Michael Kluskens <mkluskens@...>

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