Changeset 3330 for Core/branches/0075_TR_SCRIPTING/Event/I_EventService.hpp

Timestamp:

01/30/10 13:18:29 (6 months ago)

Author:

trichards

Message:

Refactored the Event framework so that I_Event is created in EventService? instead of EventQueue?.

Files:

• Core/branches/0075_TR_SCRIPTING/Event/I_EventService.hpp (modified) (2 diffs)

Core/branches/0075_TR_SCRIPTING/Event/I_EventService.hpp

@@ -43 +43 @@
 class I_EventQueue;
 class I_ActionMap;
+class I_Event;
 
 /// Event Service.
@@ -62 +63 @@
     /// @{
 public:
+    /// Create an event by name.
+    virtual I_Event& createEvent(const std::string& _name) = 0;
+
+    /// Get an event by name.
+    virtual I_Event& getEvent(const std::string& _name) = 0;
+
     /// Get an event queue by name.
+    /// There are two special event queues. "default" and "script".
+    /// The default event queue is used if I_Event::connect() has a NULL
+    /// for the event queue.  The script event queue is used as the default
+    /// event queue for scripted actions.  If either of these
+    /// event queues are created by either of these use cases, make
+    /// sure you process events on those queues, otherwise the queues will
+    /// fill up and consume memory.
     virtual I_EventQueue& getEventQueue(const std::string& _queueName) = 0;