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Chapter 2 - Event Manager

About the Event Manager

The Toolbox Event Manager provides routines that communicate information about actions performed by the user and give notice of changes in the processing status of your application. The Event Manager also provides routines that your application can use to communicate with other applications. You can control the scheduling of your application for execution by using the Event Manager.

The rest of this chapter explains

• how to structure your main event loop to receive and process events
• how to create a 'SIZE' resource to specify your application's memory requirements and scheduling options
• how to respond to most types of events
• how to receive and process high-level events
• how to send high-level events to other applications