On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 23:37, Greg Ewing wrote: > >> I've been thinking for a while that it would be a big help >> if there were one, standardised module in the stdlib for >> handling async events, and all the other gui toolkits >> etc. were made to use it. >> >> Wouldn't it have to be the Tcl event loop then? > I image he means a standardized Abstract Base Class, which each GUI toolkit would subclass. That's more or less how Twisted's "reactors" work. That way non-GUI async code can just use the ABC and not worry about what event loop is running underneath (be it TCL, GTK, or just poll()). -- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>
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