Re: problem understanding without-interrupts...?

[bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)]

At 11:02 AM 3/21/94 -0500, Doug Currie, Flavors Technology, Inc. wrote:
>>This function has the proper behavior when it is called from the
>>listener. However, when I call it by attaching it to a menubar
>>item and selecting that item, only the windows are opened and
>>closed, and no dialog items are displayed.
>
>>The same behavior exists when I add a without-interrupts
>
>without-interrupts disables event processing. Your code must need to
>process events to display the dialog items. Menu item actions take place in
>event-processing time while further events are also disabled. You could try
>having the menu item eval-enqueue your function rather than call it
>directly.

That is the preferred way to do it. If you really want the menu
to remain highlighted while the dialogs are up, you can wrap your
code with:

(let ((ccl::*processing-events* nil))
  ...)