Re: [Pharo-project] The event handling mechanism implemented in Gaucho
Here is the code, the categories which include the mentioned classes. I'm preparing a one-click image of Gaucho for the Mac, so you can play with it also. And as the official release of the tool also! On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, fernando.olivero@usi.ch <fernando.olivero@usi.ch> wrote:
Hi, Stef and Esteban, i'm sending an overview of the event handling mechanism of Gaucho. So we can discuss the additions of multitouch events and the design as well.
Key classes: GUserInterface, GPeripheralDevice, GDisplay, GView and the new event model.
GUserInterface: Collaborates with a sensor, and double dispatches the event to the proper peripheral device.
GMouse,GKeyboard: a peripheral device that distinguishes the system event, and sends the user interface  specific reactions: such as
#mouse: aGMouse entered: aGShape #keystroke: aGKeystroke from: aGKeyboard
No reification of the events, just message passing amongst the user interface, the peripherals, the display, the views, and the shapes.
EXAMPLE -------------------------------------------------------- EVENTS: from the user to the shape -------------------------------------------------------- 1)the user clicks on the mouse 2) a system event is announced 3) the user interface dispatches it to the attached mouse 4) the mouse detects that its a click to a particular shape on a view of the display and informs the user interface 5) the user interface informs the display of the click
------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIEW: shape reacting to events and redrawing -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) the display informs the active view 7) the active view informs the shape 8) the shape reacts to the click. 9)the display asks the shape wether it should redraw, and informs the damage recorder. Gaucho implements a visual garbage collector scheme, so the code is not polluted with #changed ,similar to eliminating the need to send #alloc and #dealloc on memory garbage collector. But this is surely for another thread.
Thanks. Stef! On Mar 6, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Fernando Olivero wrote:
Here is the code, the categories which include the mentioned classes.
I'm preparing a one-click image of Gaucho for the Mac, so you can play with it also. And as the official release of the tool also!
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, fernando.olivero@usi.ch <fernando.olivero@usi.ch> wrote:
Hi, Stef and Esteban, i'm sending an overview of the event handling mechanism of Gaucho. So we can discuss the additions of multitouch events and the design as well.
Key classes: GUserInterface, GPeripheralDevice, GDisplay, GView and the new event model.
GUserInterface: Collaborates with a sensor, and double dispatches the event to the proper peripheral device.
GMouse,GKeyboard: a peripheral device that distinguishes the system event, and sends the user interface specific reactions: such as
#mouse: aGMouse entered: aGShape #keystroke: aGKeystroke from: aGKeyboard
No reification of the events, just message passing amongst the user interface, the peripherals, the display, the views, and the shapes.
EXAMPLE -------------------------------------------------------- EVENTS: from the user to the shape -------------------------------------------------------- 1)the user clicks on the mouse 2) a system event is announced 3) the user interface dispatches it to the attached mouse 4) the mouse detects that its a click to a particular shape on a view of the display and informs the user interface 5) the user interface informs the display of the click
------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIEW: shape reacting to events and redrawing -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) the display informs the active view 7) the active view informs the shape 8) the shape reacts to the click. 9)the display asks the shape wether it should redraw, and informs the damage recorder. Gaucho implements a visual garbage collector scheme, so the code is not polluted with #changed ,similar to eliminating the need to send #alloc and #dealloc on memory garbage collector. But this is surely for another thread.
<GauchoUI-Core.st><GauchoUI-Peripherals-Mouse.st><GauchoUI-Peripherals.st>
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