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From: Ed Falis <falis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Event mechanisms for GUI's
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> I don't know of any GUI framework that has them. They're part of my
> idea
> of the ideal GUI I/F. Each top level window has a protected event
> queue;
> the queues for multiple windows may be combined. Which events are
> actually put in the queue is configurable by the user.
>

Not sure I fully understand what you mean by configurable message
queues, but the model sounds similar to the BeOS/Haiku/Zeta approach
described at
http://beunited.org/bebook/The%20Application%20Kit/topic_Messaging.html

What do you think?