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Topic       : The ATARI Compendium
Author      : Scott Sanders / JAY Software
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                                Event Library


The Event Library consists of a group of system calls which are used to
monitor system messages including mouse clicks, keyboard usage, menu bar
interaction, timer calls, and mouse tracking. The library consists of the
following calls:

   ∙ evnt_button()   wait for mouse button event
   ∙ evnt_dclick()   get/set double click speed
   ∙ evnt_keybd()    wait for keyboard event
   ∙ evnt_mesag()    wait for message event (see Messages)
   ∙ evnt_mouse()    wait for mouse movement event
   ∙ evnt_multi()    wait for multiple events
   ∙ evnt_timer()    wait for GEM timer