[Gambas-user] Callbacks in Gambas (was Re: Signal management)

[Benoît Minisini]

> > Nice thing. But now I have a further question: is it possible to
> > implement generic callbacks in Gambas?
> > I mean - many libraries have functions where you specify a callback to
> > be called, like the glib function g_signal_connect(); it would be nice
> > to implement them, even partly, without resorting to write a gambas
> > component. May be that by using libffi it is possible to implement them
> > fully, but even a simple event could do. My problem now is that using
> > ALSA, I must poll continuously to see if some event is coming in,
> > wasting a lot of CPU and losing precision. With a callback if would be
> > much simpler...
> > 
> > I hope I have been clear enough.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Doriano
> 
> It is possible, I will trying to do that. There is a lot of magic involved
> behind that, hopefully handled by the libffi library.
> 
> Alas, that library is not very well documented, so it will take a little
> time, and I'm not 100% sure it will work as expected.
> 
> Regards,

You should be happy with revision #3040.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini