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The idle states

Read me file for Idle States
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 Description

      The idle state is the state of the harbour virtual machine when it
      waits for the user input from the keyboard or the mouse. The idle
      state is entered during INKEY() calls currently. All applications
      that don't use INKEY() function call can signal the idle states with
      the call of HB_IDLESTATE() function (or hb_idleState() on C level).

      During idle states the virtual machine calls the garbage collector
      and  it can call user defined actions (background tasks). It also
      releases  the CPU time slices for some poor platforms that are not
      smart enough  (Windows NT).

      For defining the background tasks see the HB_IDLEADD() and
      HB_IDLEDEL()  functions.

      For direct call for background actions see HB_IDLESTATE() function.

      For signaling the idle state from C code see the hb_idleState()  API
      function.
See Also: HB_IDLEADD() HB_IDLEDEL() 

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