Re: [PHP-DEV] native events in PHP

2004-08-31 Thread Alan Knowles
Actually, php-gtk has it's own connect/emit mechanism, what is problematic, is that a number of projects (both pear packages and others) utilize a callback/event model, and the only 2 ways to implement it are as a visitor type class, or recode the same simple method in a number of places. In D

Re: [PHP-DEV] native events in PHP

2004-08-31 Thread Al Baker
There's nothing stopping someone from writing their own classes for dispatching and handling events and implementing callbacks today... Are you suggesting something built into PHP like the Java system event queue that people can define their own dispatchers and handlers for? The QT example below i

Re: [PHP-DEV] native events in PHP

2004-08-30 Thread Bård Farstad
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 05:46, Alan Knowles wrote: > I've been looking at events in PHP, at present, in PEAR, there are lots > of different methods to add callbacks, to packages, for various > purposes. It seriously lacks cohesion, and would be nice to sort out at > the language level. > > Having

[PHP-DEV] native events in PHP

2004-08-30 Thread Alan Knowles
I've been looking at events in PHP, at present, in PEAR, there are lots of different methods to add callbacks, to packages, for various purposes. It seriously lacks cohesion, and would be nice to sort out at the language level. Having seen C#, while not perfect, it is an interesting model. Ther