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<h3 class="subsection"> 4.4.1 Names </h3>
<p>Events are identified with the help of an extensible hierarchically-structured
event naming layer. This system allows event names to be drilled down to
arbitrary levels of specificity while simultaneously allowing event subscribers
to express interest in general categories or precise event varieties.
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<p>For example: Each joystick is individually named, so event consumers can listen
only to particular devices, or to particular flavors of events. For instance,
the fourth joystick can produce the event
<samp>‘crystalspace.input.joystick.3.button.down’</samp>; an event handler may wish to
subscribe to <samp>‘crystalspace.input.joystick.3.button.down’</samp> to only receive
down events from that joystick, to <samp>‘crystalspace.input.joystick.3.button’</samp>
to receive all button events from that joystick, to
<samp>‘crystalspace.input.joystick.3’</samp> to receive all events (buttons and moves)
from that joystick, to <samp>‘crystalspace.input.joystick’</samp> to receive all events
from all joysticks, and so on.
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<p>Event names are translated into an efficient internal representation, the
<samp>‘csEventID’</samp>, using a singleton event name registry object
(<samp>‘csEventNameRegistry’</samp>, implementing the <samp>‘iEventNameRegistry’</samp>
interface) which can always be retrieved using the
<code>csEventNameRegistry::GetRegistry(iObjectRegistry*)</code> method. The actual
name translation is performed by the <code>GetID()</code> method, which takes a
string or <samp>‘csString’</samp> argument and returns a <samp>‘csEventID’</samp>. The
<samp>‘csEventID’</samp>s are then used in calls to subscribe to event queues and in
comparisons to determine the type of an event. Many common event types'
<samp>‘csEventID’</samp>s can be accessed using macros defined in
<tt>‘include/csutil/eventnames.h’</tt>, e.g., <samp>‘crystalspace.application.quit’</samp>
is <samp>‘csevQuit()’</samp>, which must be called with an argument of either an
<samp>‘iObjectRegistry’</samp> pointer or a <samp>‘iEventNameRegistry’</samp> reference. Since
referencing an event <small>ID</small> via one of these macros will consume several
cycles, performance-sensitive code should cache the results; see, for example,
the <samp>‘CS_DECLARE_EVENT_SHORTCUTS’</samp> and
<samp>‘CS_INITIALIZE_EVENT_SHORTCUTS()’</samp> macros in
<tt>‘include/csutil/eventnames.h’</tt>.
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<p>Demultiplexing in event handlers is handled like this:
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<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="example">static bool DemoEventHandler (iEvent& ev)
{
if (ev.Name == csevMouseButton (object_reg, 0))
...
else if (ev.Name == csevMouseMove (object_reg, 0))
...
else
...
}
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<p>This will handle mouse button and mouse move events for the first mouse.
</p>
<p>You can also catch entire event hierarchies with a single test:
</p>
<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="example">if (name_reg->IsKindOf(ev.Name, csevKeyboardEvent (name_reg)))
{
HandleKeyboardEvent(ev)
}
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<p>This will catch all keyboard events.
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