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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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Listening For and Raising Events in the BLL
I'm working on a WinForms .Net Recording App and I have a RecordingMgr in my BLL to listen for new events captured by another class. I want to display the events in my UI and I'm stuck as to what's ...
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Attaching Events to Document Better Than Attaching Them to Elements?
While bouncing around StackOverflow, I've noticed a number of people attaching events (notably click events) to the document as opposed to the elements themselves.
Example:
Given this:
<button ...
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Is an event loop just a for/while loop with optimized polling?
I'm trying to understand what an event loop is. Often the explanation is that in the event loop, you do something until you're notified that an event occurred. You than handle the event and continue ...
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Dynamic div loaded only after second click [migrated]
I've got an element in the DOM that's draggable and when it's clicked, I want to grab the x/y coordinates (not shown in this example, but for the future) and the height of tooltip that fades in. The ...
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Is it okay to call functions when event occurs, or after that?
So I was not sure how to structure this title, feel free to edit it.
My question is:
When I have a Game Loop, I have 3 main blocks. Handle Events, Update game state, and draw.
Let's say for example I ...
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Making FB API sending invitation automatically [on hold]
I'd like to know if a Facebook API can manage automatically sending invitation ?
Or if it inevitably needs a user action. If it needs a user action, is it possible to automate and simplify it ?
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How to cross-reference many character encodings with ASCII OR UTFx?
I'm working with a binary structure, the goal of which is to index the significance of specific bits for any character encoding so that we may trigger events while doing specific checks against the ...
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How QT Framework handles Events Coming from OS?
When we call QApplication::exec() at the end of our main() function, the application enters Qt's event loop. Conceptually, the event loop looks like this:
while (!exit_was_called) {
while ...
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Can PHP handle mouse events? [closed]
I'm a newbie in php and i want to know if php can handle mouse events such as upon mouseCicked, mouseDoubleClicked, mouseMoved, mouseHovered etc..
And can events like button click , like displaying ...
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Am I doing events right?
My problem is with JavaScript in the browser but I guess it could apply to any event-driven environment.
I have coded up a widget in my app. The widget allows a user to select an item using 3 ...
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Assessing Relative Maintainability
We (a contractor, actually) are implementing an off the shelf system to replace a legacy homegrown system for the core domain of the company (designing widgets). Unfortunately both systems will have ...
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Push-Based Events in a Services Oriented Architecture
I have come to a point, in building a services oriented architecture (on top of Thrift), that I need to expose events and allow listeners.
My initial thought was, "create an EventService" to handle ...
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How to detect achievements in gaming?
I mistakenly posted this to stackoverflow and now posting here based on a suggestion in on that site ...
This is a very high level conceptual question. Say in a software application I have 4 ...
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Do all programs run in a loop? [closed]
I was wondering whether all programs run in a Loop, checking for variable changes then acting upon said changes followed by another Loop. Or do they run in a While statement, waiting for a variable to ...
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Where is interface between button click and event raising defined
When I click on button, might be in windows apps, web apps, etc it has some animation to actually see it clicked and event is raised in background. I've knowledge of events and its attaching to button ...
