Where should the marquee code be?  In the HandleEvents loop?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Ted Spencer <ted@...> wrote:
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> On 27 Oct, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Pierre Zippi wrote:
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>> I'm using the code below to draw a marquee with ON MOUSE doMouse.
>> doMouse checks which window he mouse is in and goes to FN doMarquee(mV,mH)
>> if it is in the main window.
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>> Here's the issue: Everything works as expected for ~3-4 seconds, then
>> the cursor turns to a spinning beach ball. No bad after effects. It
>> continues to draw a marquee while in the beach ball state and it
>> reverts to an arrow on mouse up.  But why is changing?
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> No call to Handleevents? Mac thinks your program is hung...
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