Thanks!
I'll check out EvtEventAvail - it sounds like the best option!
You know, I saw a research paper the other day about the paradox of
searching - that when someone is searching for information they often
don't know what words to look for... :)
What I need is something in between a tutorial and a reference -
something that describes the use of the functions in a module and ties
them all together with examples.
Roger Chaplin wrote:
>
> DIAMOND JEFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This is a very basic API question and I apologize if I have just
> > overlooked in in the SDK documentation, but I was wondering if the
> > PalmOS has something like PeekMessage such that if you have no messages
> > in your queue, you don't block your application...
> > (If you have messages, you of course handle them - I'm not trying to
> > lock up the machine - just to keep my app from freezing while waiting
> > for feedback...)
>
> How about EvtEventAvail? Or, have you tried experimenting with a zero
> timeout value to EvtGetEvent? (I haven't, but looking at the source, it
> seems that it would do what you want, but it also seems to incur lots
> of overhead compared to EvtEventAvail.)
>
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