Re: Event handling

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

>I overgeneralized a bit what Carmack said. He was speaking strictly
>about *input* events. Given that you do include the correct things as
>"input events" (like he said, time is very useful when considered as
>input, just like network, mouse or keyboard), you do not need to journal
>other events.

Right. I missed that. But it fits neatly in my model ;)

>A queue class, with a "subscribe" method that let "event sink" objects
>register with them and receive their events. That's enough abstract
>objects to do most everything.

For that abstract class stuff you should really have a look at the Gtk--
Signal mechanism. It's the nicest design of such a thing I've seen up to
now. It's very versatile (just about everything can be a sink) and
actually quite slim (e.g. no need for abstract classes).


Cu
	Christian
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