On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:35:03AM -0500, Ryan May wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Carmean <d...@halibut.com> wrote:

[snip]

> > I've spent a few hours this weekend doing some meta-monkey-patching--
> > using __getattribute__ to decorate the setters on-the-fly to invoke
> > callbacks.process(*args) after the changes.   I have a few more quick
> > hacks to try before I'm ready to decide on a production-ready strategy.
> >
> > So my question today is: is anyone interested in discussing these
> > ideas and how to implement them?
> 
> I'm interested. I was just noticing a need for the signals to simplify
> some interactive stuff I was doing.  I'm not wild about using the
> current incarnation of the CallbackRegistry, since it doesn't allow
> you to add signals after you create the object. Also, there are only
> global signals, you can't connect to a specific object (unless you
> were planning on each object having its own registry?). When I was
> considering this yesterday, I was looking at these:
> 
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/87056/
> http://pydispatcher.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Also, had you given any thought to using decorators to note methods
> that emit a certain signal, or to connect one method to a given
> signal?

I've gone through the same thought process.  I do plan to add a 
CallbackRegistry.add_signals method; I am giving each instance 
it's own registry instance (axes.Axes already does this); and I 
am using decorators. 




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