I think some standard UI objects generate nil events, can't remember which
offhand (most likely all of them). I've been writing apps under the
impression that anything may generate a nil event (looking at variables and
control states instead of acting on every nil event).
D
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From: Paul Dugas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 4:22 PM
Subject: Spurious nilevent?
>Hum... For some reason, I'm getting a nilevent delivered to one of my
forms
>event handlers. I'm doing a bit of timing based on a global storing the
>time of the next event and passing a timeout to the EvtGetEvent() call.
>Turns out that if I turn off my timing stuff (by always passing
>evtWaitForever), I'm still getting a nil event to this form. It appears to
>happen when I press a PushButton. Is this supposed to happen? Why is it
>delivering the nilevent?
>
>I got around it but it took a while. I assumed it was my timing stuff
>craping out.
>
>-Paul
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