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I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but you might try
dispatching the event received from EvtGetEvent to your form before
calling SysHandleEvent. I believe the problem is that SysHandleEvent
is seeing the penDown event in the menu area, absorbing it, and
placing a menu event back on to the event queue. If you're using the
typical CW framework app event loop that looks like this:

	do {
		EvtGetEvent(&event, evtWaitForever);

		if (! SysHandleEvent(&event))
			if (! MenuHandleEvent(0, &event, &error))
				if (! AppHandleEvent(&event))
					FrmDispatchEvent(&event);

	} while (event.eType != appStopEvent);

then FrmDispatchEvent will never get called for a penDown in the menu
area.

In my program that uses the whole screen area, I process all events
that I want to see first, and if they're not on my list of events to
absorb, only then do I pass them on to SysHandleEvent.

-Robert Hildinger



Donovan Winch <donovan.winch@picsel.com> wrote in message news:<3DBFC375.F79DF1D0@picsel.com>...
> Hey people,
> 
> I'm having some difficulty with trying to process events in the top left
> of the screen in a Palm OS 5 application.
> 
> The application doesn't have a Palm OS menu. I've removed the default
> one from the resource file, and tried commenting out the "if (!
> MenuHandleEvent(0, &event, &error))" line in the AppEventLoop()
> function, so events shouldn't even be passed to the menu event handler.
> 
> I was hoping that this would allow me to use the whole screen (including
> the region usually used as the 'menu bar' at the top) for my own
> nefarious purposes, but any pen events in the top left (where the
> default menu is usually located) don't get passed to my main form as pen
> events (penDownEvent, penUpEvent, penMoveEvent, etc.).
> 
> Is there something else I should be doing to disable this area's use as
> a menu, or are there some 'special' events that I need to check for just
> in that area of the screen?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> Donovan Winch.
> (donovan_dot_winch_at_picsel_dot_com)