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- =head1 NAME
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- Tk::Event - ToolKit for Events
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- =for category Implementation
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- =head1 SYNOPSIS
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- use Tk::Event;
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- Tk::Event->fileevent(\*FH, 'readable' => callback);
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- Tk::Event->lineavail(\*FH, callback);
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- use Tk::Event::Signal qw(INT);
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- $SIG{'INT'} = callback;
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- use Tk::Event::process;
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- Tk::Event->proc($pid, callback);
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- QueueEvent(callback [, position])
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- =head1 DESCRIPTION
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- That is better than nothing but still hard to use. Most scripts want higher
- level result (a line, a "block" of data etc.)
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- So it has occured to me that we could use new-ish TIEHANDLE thus:
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- my $obj = tie SOMEHANDLE,Tk::Event::IO;
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- while (<SOMEHANDLE>)
- {
- }
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- Then the READLINE routine registers a callback and looks something like:
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- sub READLINE
- {
- my $obj = shift;
- Event->io(*$obj,'readable',sub { sysread(*$obj,${*$obj},1,length(${*$obj}) });
- my $pos;
- while (($pos = index(${*$obj},$/) < 0)
- {
- DoOneEvent();
- }
- Event->io(*$obj,'readable',''); # unregister
- $pos += length($/);
- my $result = substr(${*$obj},0,$pos);
- substr(${*$obj},0,$pos) = '';
- return $result;
- }
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- This is using the scalar part of the glob representing the _inner_ IO
- as a buffer in which to accumulate chars.
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