Difference between PollEvent() and WaitEvent()?

*** PLEASE READ *** - I KNOW THAT WAITEVENT GIVES TIME BACK TO THE SYSTEM IF THERE IS NO EVENT WHEREAS POLLEVENT WILL GO ON WITH A NULL EVENT. THAT IS -NOT- WHAT I'M ASKING.


I'm running a dual core CPU so PollEvent has been working just fine up till now, but I'm going to be testing soon, so I decided to switch over the WaitEvent. Problem is.. it misses a lot of events that PollEvent catches. Why? Buttons being clicked, tabs being clicked. These are just examples of things which get ignored when I replace PollEvent() with WaitEvent() and I can't find anything in the docs to suggest that there is ( or could be ) any other difference apart from that noted above in caps.

PollEvent does not remove the events from the event queue so I would be very suspect how you could keep a MaxGUI program functioning reliable with just the PollEvent command.

Skid,

PollEvent does remove event from queue. PeekEvent doest not.

Doug Stastny

Well the docs say :



And it's working just great.

It's giving me zero CPU time too, so maybe I'll just stick with PollEvent.