Priority of Events
Each type of event has a certain priority. The Event Manager returns events in this order of priority:
Several of the Event Manager routines can be restricted to operate on one or more specific types of events. You do this by disabling (or "masking out") the events you are not interested in receiving. See "Setting the Event Mask" beginning on page 2-26 for details about specifying the types of events you wish to receive.
- activate events
- mouse-down, mouse-up, key-down, key-up, and disk-inserted events in FIFO (first-in, first-out) order
- auto-key events
- update events (in front-to-back order of windows)
- operating-system events (suspend, resume, mouse-moved)
- high-level events
- null events