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- Subject: Re: [AD] Exorcising END_OF_MAIN for Allegro 5
- From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:09:22 -0600
On July 14, 2008, Peter Hull wrote:
> On 7/14/08, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So we aren't making people use the new event system? that would be the
> > optimal place to handle OS events...
>
> We are making people use it in the sense that there's no alternative
> but AFAIK they're not obliged to check events regularly - say during a
> long calculation or a cut-scene, on OSX the app will start to pinwheel
> if it doesn't respond to its events.
Hmm, interesting. I'm not sure we should require checking regularly, but a
note in the docs would work.
> Pete
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