Danny suggested opening the IR library may do the trick but I'll look into
just how 'legal' SysUIBusy is
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: How to temporarily inhibit beaming
>At 6:53 PM +0100 20-03-00, Dave Lippincott wrote:
>>Is there a way my app can temporarily inhibit the beam receive? I have a
>>sequence of routines that can't be interrupted or data loss will occur. I
>>only want to turn off the beam receive for a short time. Is there a Zen
way
>>to do it?
>
>Beaming requires the event loop to be running. So if you just don't call
>EvtGetEvent, or don't pass the events on to SysHandleEvent, you will
>prevent beaming. This isn't actually very zen, but a lot of apps do this
>by mistake and accidently prevent beaming that way.
>
>There's an API that the OS uses to temporarily disable beaming when it's
>doing something important. I'm not sure if that's public or not though...
>because it's still a little shaky how it works. It's in a public header,
>and the name of it is SysUIBusy, and I suppose if you can find it in the
>docs you can use it, or if you can't then you've just written a hack. :-)
>
> --Bob
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