#: 12275 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    17-Sep-91  21:11:54
Sb: #12258-#Intercepts
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Kim Kempf 71161,3221

Kim,

Thanks for the details. It is making more sense all the time.

Re your comment "don't call me Surely" -- I don't understand?

It is too bad that OSK does not have a routine which could do a ctrl-c
dispatch. I can think of lots of applications -- some serious, others fun. For
example(s):

1. It'd be nice to have a ctrl-c menu pop up in an application which would
permit some kind of sub-task in an overlay window (calc, calendar, etc.).

2. If a game (like pacman?) is being done then ctrl-c would be great for a menu
which would change colors, pause, restart, etc.

We could go on. But the key is that these applications need IMMEDIATE response
-- not the kind of thing which happens when flags are checked from loops. I
don't see why it should be a problem either. Could a function be written which
pulls the interput stuff of the stack and then does something like a longjmp()
to a previously set point in the program. Guess that the routine would just
have to change the return point from the intercept from the program location to
the restart point?

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