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Article #884Re: [NXApp run]
From: John Jay Feiler
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 06:18
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 06:18
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In article <1992Aug25.092051@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov> shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley [CSC]) writes: > > Does the -run method of Application NEED to be invoked. > > I need a little bit more control over the event loop. > > (NO, I didn't design it poorly, I didn't design it. I am trying > to integrate an old program into a NeXTSTEP environment.) > > The program I'm trying to write a front end for (it was command line) > calls a function that is equivalent to getc, and this function needs > to return a character, probably dispatching other events while waiting > for the character to come in. What about doing a DPSAddFD on the file descriptor of whatever you are "getc"ing from. The you can still use -run, and your getc stuff will be checked once every "run" event loop. > -- > Bill Shirley | ``Computer Science is not about computers any > shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov| more than astronomy is about telescopes.''
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!psinntp!psinntp!relief!jjfeiler From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: [NXApp run] Message-ID: <1992Aug28.061820.441@relief.com> Date: 28 Aug 92 06:18:20 GMT References: <1992Aug25.092051@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov> Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com Reply-To: jjfeiler@relief.com Organization: relief consulting Lines: 23