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Hail, O gods of MacApp programming--
 
My application has a window with a number of views in it.  One of those views
needs to get idle time so that a visual element within it can be animated.
This view is not the target view of the window; it is a peer to it.
 
Because the view is not in the target chain, it doesn't get time automatically.
And if I try to put it into the cohandler chain, all kind of things get messed
up, and I wind up in an endless loop that eventually crashes the system with a
28 error.
 
What's the right answer?  I never want the animated view to be the target view,
because clicking on it doesn't do anything, but I don't know how to make it get
idle time.  Am I missing something obvious here?  I can't believe the people
who designed MacApp didn't account for this case.
 
How do I do what I want to do here?  Please enlighten me.
 
Rich Gillam
GE Information Services