You can write your own event handler.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Thomas Costigliola <[email protected]>wrote:
> I mentioned wd 'wait' because it can do part of what I am trying to
> accomplish. I want to take complete control over the message loop. For
> example I want something like the following in win32:
> while(1) {
> GetMessage(...)
> DispatchMessage(...)
> }
>
> wd 'wait' is somewhat like GetMessage with the undesired side effect of
> making the current form modal and ignoring all the other forms. So,
> essentially what I want to do is wait for an event.
>
> The reason I want to do this and not use the standard J event handling
> mechanism or override wdhandler is because this way I can make my entire
> gui
> functional and functional level from the J perspective (i.e. tacit).
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > You'll probably need to describe your problem in more detail. My first
> > response is that you shouldn't be using wd'wait'. It is rarely required
> and
> > often its use indicates that a slightly better view of the overall
> problem
> > would remove the requirement.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Thomas Costigliola <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a facility or some work around to wd 'wait' that allows you to
> > > wait
> > > for a message from all forms without making any of them modal?
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