never mind. my brain woke up later...... On Sep 19, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Brian Stevens wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My application currently hides itself when it becomes a background > application (based on user preference using the dialog events > _mfSuspend & _mfResume). Using RP's suggestion to poke high values for > time to receive null events effectively reduces CPU use to almost zero > percent, and I'm happy with the results(also used a carbon event timer > instead of ON TIMER). My goal is to also detect a hide by the user via > command-H and treat it the same as the application-induced hide . Do > I have to poll the raw events and is it even possible to intercept a > command-H before the finder sees it? I've searched all the examples, > but I haven't gone to the Apple developer web site. Maybe I should be > looking there. Code snippets, clues appreciated. Something tells me > I'm approaching and/or thinking about this problem incorrectly. > > TIA for any input. > > Brian S. > > -- >