Re: How do you deal with event functions?
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- Subject: Re: How do you deal with event functions?
- From: Rici Lake <lua@...>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:37:21 -0500
On 6-Dec-06, at 6:51 AM, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
Rici Lake wrote:
On 5-Dec-06, at 6:37 PM, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
C provides SetEvent function, and Lua registers only
*one* event handler. C calls that handler passing
event name (a string) and any number of parameters.
Or you could just register the handler table, which would also work
nicely with the Lua 5.1 module system.
Yes, but what extra functionality/flexibility would that achieve?
Could you give a simple example?
It gives no extra functionality, just syntactic sugar. It lets you
define your collection of handlers in a single module file, using
standard function definitions:
function onStartup() ... end
function onShutdown() ... end
etc.
On the other hand, the events onKeyPressed() and onMouseClick() (and
friends) look like they should apply to some interface object. In that
case, they could simply be normal object methods.