[Pythonmac-SIG] question about event handlers

[Jack Jansen]

On Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002, at 02:59 Europe/Amsterdam, Alexandre 
Parenteau wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> I would think polling aggressively, but on a timer basis, for the mouse
> location (and then finding the underlying window) is probably the most
> appropriate way to achieve a smooth mouse move handling.

Another problem may be that the MacPython event loop is in your way 
(Python uses a classical WaitNextEvent()-style mainloop in the inner 
interpreter, to handle clicks on other windows, command-., etc.). Try 
disabling the Python event handling code by calling 
MacOS.SchedParams(0, 0).
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