Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm <at> gnu.org> writes: > > > On 8 Feb 2007, at 11:06, Xavier Glattard wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I try to understand NSRunLoop and event management. > > > > I have found the following text in NSRunLoop.h > > It's about GSRunLoopWatcher > > > (...) > > > > What is the status of GSRunLoopWatcher ? > > Current, as described in the text you quote which warns that Apple > appear to be close to providing a general API for the task (even > though it's not clear yet) and we will probably adopt it. > > > Why is it not use in backend ? > > It is used in the backend ... see back/Source/win32/WIN32Server.m > which handles the received events. > > > (under win32, PeekMessage/DispatchMessage are called firth by the > > DisplayServer > > then by GSRunLoopCtxt) > > If you look carefully at the GSRunLoopCtxt code, you will see that > DispatchMessage is called only for unhandled messages (ie those not > passed on to a GSRunLoopWatcher). > I don't know why the -callback: method is also called ... I would > have thought that it was unnecessary, but perhaps it's a performance > tweak. ie, after receiving an event via the runloop mechanism the > code then removes any other events from the windows queue directly. > Maybe someone else can better answer this. > > > Is there an other mechanism on the way ? > > Not yet. > > > If i want to add joystick support to GNUstep, which interface do i > > have to use ? > > I think that depends on how the operating system presents the > joystick interface. If it appears as a file from which you read > data, then it's probably best to open that file as an NSInputStream > and use that API, otherwise using GSRunLoopWatcher is the way to go. > You can look at the code of the NSStream subclasses to see how then > use GSRunLoopWatcher internally. >
phew ! My brain boiled three times (and fried twice) before i understand anything... And many pieces of code are still quite obscure to me. I would not be a very good compiler. But i found out what you talk about. Where you see a performance tweak I see... hum... In french i would said 'un sac de noeuds' ;-) (bag of knots) I wonder if the weird behaviors of my opengl test couldn't be explained by this much more weird code. About joystick support : NSStream seems to be what i need :-) Does it work ? Do you plan to use streams instead of watchers ? Is someone working on that ? Need help ? Many thanks Xavier _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev