>>>>A guy here at work wants to have more than one Read Events active at a time. He has a "dashboard" application from which users can run various other applications. Both the dashboard app and the called app have a Read Events. The second one is ignored, which is exactly what the help says will happen. He thinks he saw a workaround in FPA or some other magazine a few years ago. Does anyone know of one?
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>>>Why would it be needed? Does he want to kill 'dashboard' and continue with already started other apps?
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>>No. He wants Dashboard -- think of it as a top level menu -- to stay alive and have control return to it after the called app(s) complete.
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>Could he just block CLEAR EVENTS calls in these applications? In can be done conditionally, in case if the same application runs stand-alone another day.


It's the READ EVENTS of the called applications that are being ignored. They immediately terminate and return control to the Dashboard app.