Event System Design

Tim Rowledge rowledge at interval.com
Mon Jun 21 02:57:48 UTC 1999


On Sun 20 Jun, Peter William Lount wrote:

> Then what happens to the events?
> 
> It looks like key presses get a buffer of upto 64 characters while the
> mouse buttons get a single value. This design looks like it could loose
> mouse button presses as only the most current one is remembered. Why are
> they not stored in an "event list" made up of Smalltalk "event" objects
> directly in the VM code that records them (recordKeystroke,
> recordMouseDown, recordModifierButtons)?
You might find it interesting to look at my VM event changes :-
http://sumeru.stanford.EDU/tim/pooters/SqFiles/deltas/sq23Events.zip
which makes a start on the problem.

tim

> 

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