Does anyone have any experience of using MCALLT in Easyptr? I'm looking for a few examples of making use of the timeout and events (general tinkering), and perhaps for adding help 'bubbles' to my programs.
2 of my programs (Decimal Invaders and Status) use the timeout facility to allow something to be counted or printed if nothing happens within a short time, but that's about as far as I ever got with it. The Easyptr manual is pretty scant on the subject, basically describing it as an MCALL with a couple of extra parameters in Easyptr's IMPORTANT_TXT file. It doesn't really give any examples showing to properly use it. As far as I know, item=MCALLT(#ch%\event%,time%) times out after time% frames (50=1 second), and the event% parameter seems to be: bits0-7 set - allow termination of call by events listed in pt1/42 (Do, ESC, F1 etc) as long as \ is used after #ch% bits 8-15 (although suggested to be upper nybble bits 12-15) allow smsq/e job events??? Since SMSQ/E allows 8 events but only 4 bits are available, if I'm correct it must be a hex value 0 to 7 in those 4 bits??? A timeout return seems to be indicated by item=-1280 (not sure of the significance of that number) and event% being returned unchanged in value if no 'event' occurred. Can anyone give a better explanation, or provide a few examples or documentation on the subject? Apart from the "bubble help" perhaps I don't really have any particular use in mind, just learnign more about it. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 01/09/2006 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
