Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:17:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> In the typical way of CPAN, I found not one answer
>> but three!
>>
>> Event-0.01 Graham Barr
>> Event-0.76 Joshua N. Pritikin
>> EventServer-2.3 Jack Shirazi
>>
>> Can any of you please advise me on why I might choose one of these
>> over the others?
>
>Note that EventServer hasn't been updated since Feb 96.
>
>> I've been looking on CPAN for an event-handling framework module that
>> will allow me to multiplex network connections _and_ work together
>> with Tk UI events.
>
>Nik? Are you listening? :-)
Listening, yes - doing anththing about it no.
Tk's fileevent can multiplex network connections by itself. That is the
one form of "fileevent" which more-or-less works on Win32.
Tk800.016+ also have Tk's Event interface hauled out into a separate module
Tk::Event which provides a Tk-ish C level "table of functions" that rest
of Tk and its extensions use to call into the Event handling.
The intent was to provide a version of Tk::Event (perhaps Event::Tk) which
did the same thing, but was based on Event rather than massaged C level
tcl routines. I have no immediate plan to do that as I want to get
tk8.3 integrated with perl5.6+ to demo UNICODE at perl conference and
that is looking very tight on its own (I have not really started yet - panic!)
If someone else wants to have a try I am more than willing to give advice
and help with trickier bits. I will/can not change to Event scheme
in mainstream Tk distribution until Event is table on Win32.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
