Event-driven programming refers to the programming technique where the flow of the program is driven by recognition and handling of events such as mouse clicks, key presses, etc.
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In an event-driven environment, how should a “cancel” function abort all further events?
In my iOS app, things are mostly driven by events.
The user presses a button
The app listens for an external device to be connected to the iOS device
Once the device is detected (is connected), an ...
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Automation Approaches: Events/Triggers/Cron [closed]
It has been my experience, when building websites, that most of the logic of a system is executed when user input is accepted, be it via POSTs, GETs etc. I would like to know what processes or ...
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How to document events?
Code documentation is usually related to a piece of code, be it small (method-level) or larger (class- or namespace-level). However, it is always about the inputs and the outputs of that piece of ...
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Event Driven Programming: A sequence of unfortunate events
I have a very basic game loop whose primary purpose is to check for updates & changes to a list.
I have contemplated using event driven programming to replace the game loop/list idea with an ...
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Application protocols and state machines: designing a complicated server
I'm designing and prototyping a server that has the following characteristics:
during the daemon's initialization it spawns nine "manager" servers, each of which solves one part of the overall ...
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Are both the EventAggregator used by ViewModel and Domain Event used by Model the same thing?
My initial doubt was should the Model classes in an MVVM use the EventAggregator or the traditional delegates in C# for events. I searched around and read about the Domain Events. It seems to me that ...
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What are the caveats of the event system built on Messenger rather than on classic .NET events?
MVVM Light and PRISM offer messenger to implement event system.
the approximate interface looks like the following one:
interface Messanger
{
void ...
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what's the difference between Routed Events and Attached Events? [duplicate]
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What is the difference between routed events and attached events?
I tried to find through various sources but still unable to understand difference between routed events ...
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Event system architecture for networking when performance is concerned
How should I design a system for an action game (think in Golden Axe) where events can happen remotely?
I'm using TCP for this because the client is in flash.
There's so many options, I can make a ...
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Futures/Monads vs Events
In an application framework
when performance impact can be ignored (10-20 events per second at max),
what is more maintainable and flexible to use as a preferred medium for communication between ...
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Thread safe GUI programming
I have been programming Java with swing for a couple of years now, and always accepted that GUI interactions had to happen on the Event Dispatch Thread. I recently started to use GTK+ for C ...
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Combining multiple events into one action/ Defer refreshing
So in a GUI program I have multiple events that trigger a update of a workspace. This update call is costly so I would want it to not happen very often.
A user might pick something from a dropdown ( ...
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Should I use events in this case?
I'm creating a video player, like a custom YouTube player.
All of the GUI elements (progress bar, video player, play button, ...) are different classes, but I obviously need them to communicate. When ...
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event source calls methods in a interface
I am using Java.
How does an event source like a (button in a GUI) knows which method to call in an interface?
For example, I am listening to Mouse Events and have implemented a Mouse Listener ...
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Is event chaining considered good practice?
From time to time I've encountered scenarios where several complex conditions need to be met prior to triggering an event. Furthermore, most listeners also run additional checks to determine the ...
