1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: declares wxEventLoop class
4 // Author: Vadim Zeitlin
8 // Copyright: (c) 2001 Vadim Zeitlin <zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr>
9 // Licence: wxWindows licence
10 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12 #ifndef _WX_EVTLOOP_H_
13 #define _WX_EVTLOOP_H_
19 NOTE ABOUT wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor LOGIC
20 ------------------------------------------
22 The YieldFor() function helps to avoid re-entrancy problems and problems
23 caused by out-of-order event processing
24 (see "wxYield-like problems" and "wxProgressDialog+threading BUG" wx-dev threads).
26 The logic behind YieldFor() is simple: it analyzes the queue of the native
27 events generated by the underlying GUI toolkit and picks out and processes
28 only those matching the given mask.
30 It's important to note that YieldFor() is used to selectively process the
31 events generated by the NATIVE toolkit.
32 Events syntethized by wxWidgets code or by user code are instead selectively
33 processed thanks to the logic built into wxEvtHandler::ProcessPendingEvents().
34 In fact, when wxEvtHandler::ProcessPendingEvents gets called from inside a
35 YieldFor() call, wxEventLoopBase::IsEventAllowedInsideYield is used to decide
36 if the pending events for that event handler can be processed.
37 If all the pending events associated with that event handler result as "not processable",
38 the event handler "delays" itself calling wxEventLoopBase::DelayPendingEventHandler
39 (so it's moved: m_handlersWithPendingEvents => m_handlersWithPendingDelayedEvents).
40 Last, wxEventLoopBase::ProcessPendingEvents() before exiting moves the delayed
41 event handlers back into the list of handlers with pending events
42 (m_handlersWithPendingDelayedEvents => m_handlersWithPendingEvents) so that
43 a later call to ProcessPendingEvents() (possibly outside the YieldFor() call)
44 will process all pending events as usual.
47 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
48 // wxEventLoopBase: interface for wxEventLoop
49 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
51 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxEventLoopBase
54 // trivial, but needed (because of wxEventLoopBase) ctor
58 virtual ~wxEventLoopBase() { }
60 // use this to check whether the event loop was successfully created before
62 virtual bool IsOk() const { return true; }
64 // returns true if this is the main loop
68 // dispatch&processing
69 // -------------------
71 // start the event loop, return the exit code when it is finished
72 virtual int Run() = 0;
74 // is this event loop running now?
76 // notice that even if this event loop hasn't terminated yet but has just
77 // spawned a nested (e.g. modal) event loop, this would return false
78 bool IsRunning() const;
80 // exit from the loop with the given exit code
81 virtual void Exit(int rc
= 0) = 0;
83 // return true if any events are available
84 virtual bool Pending() const = 0;
86 // dispatch a single event, return false if we should exit from the loop
87 virtual bool Dispatch() = 0;
89 // same as Dispatch() but doesn't wait for longer than the specified (in
90 // ms) timeout, return true if an event was processed, false if we should
91 // exit the loop or -1 if timeout expired
92 virtual int DispatchTimeout(unsigned long timeout
) = 0;
94 // implement this to wake up the loop: usually done by posting a dummy event
95 // to it (can be called from non main thread)
96 virtual void WakeUp() = 0;
102 // make sure that idle events are sent again
103 virtual void WakeUpIdle();
105 // this virtual function is called when the application
106 // becomes idle and by default it forwards to wxApp::ProcessIdle() and
107 // while it can be overridden in a custom event loop, you must call the
108 // base class version to ensure that idle events are still generated
110 // it should return true if more idle events are needed, false if not
111 virtual bool ProcessIdle();
114 // Yield-related hooks
115 // -------------------
117 // process all currently pending events right now
119 // it is an error to call Yield() recursively unless the value of
120 // onlyIfNeeded is true
122 // WARNING: this function is dangerous as it can lead to unexpected
123 // reentrancies (i.e. when called from an event handler it
124 // may result in calling the same event handler again), use
125 // with _extreme_ care or, better, don't use at all!
126 bool Yield(bool onlyIfNeeded
= false);
127 virtual bool YieldFor(long eventsToProcess
) = 0;
129 // returns true if the main thread is inside a Yield() call
130 virtual bool IsYielding() const
131 { return m_isInsideYield
; }
133 // returns true if events of the given event category should be immediately
134 // processed inside a wxApp::Yield() call or rather should be queued for
135 // later processing by the main event loop
136 virtual bool IsEventAllowedInsideYield(wxEventCategory cat
) const
137 { return (m_eventsToProcessInsideYield
& cat
) != 0; }
139 // no SafeYield hooks since it uses wxWindow which is not available when wxUSE_GUI=0
145 // return currently active (running) event loop, may be NULL
146 static wxEventLoopBase
*GetActive() { return ms_activeLoop
; }
148 // set currently active (running) event loop
149 static void SetActive(wxEventLoopBase
* loop
);
153 // this function should be called before the event loop terminates, whether
154 // this happens normally (because of Exit() call) or abnormally (because of
155 // an exception thrown from inside the loop)
156 virtual void OnExit();
158 // the pointer to currently active loop
159 static wxEventLoopBase
*ms_activeLoop
;
161 // YieldFor() helpers:
162 bool m_isInsideYield
;
163 long m_eventsToProcessInsideYield
;
165 wxDECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxEventLoopBase
);
168 #if defined(__WXMSW__) || defined(__WXMAC__) || defined(__WXDFB__) || defined(__UNIX__)
170 // this class can be used to implement a standard event loop logic using
171 // Pending() and Dispatch()
173 // it also handles idle processing automatically
174 class WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxEventLoopManual
: public wxEventLoopBase
179 // enters a loop calling OnNextIteration(), Pending() and Dispatch() and
180 // terminating when Exit() is called
183 // sets the "should exit" flag and wakes up the loop so that it terminates
185 virtual void Exit(int rc
= 0);
188 // may be overridden to perform some action at the start of each new event
190 virtual void OnNextIteration() { }
193 // the loop exit code
196 // should we exit the loop?
200 // process all already pending events and dispatch a new one (blocking
201 // until it appears in the event queue if necessary)
203 // returns the return value of Dispatch()
204 bool ProcessEvents();
206 wxDECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxEventLoopManual
);
209 #endif // platforms using "manual" loop
211 // we're moving away from old m_impl wxEventLoop model as otherwise the user
212 // code doesn't have access to platform-specific wxEventLoop methods and this
213 // can sometimes be very useful (e.g. under MSW this is necessary for
214 // integration with MFC) but currently this is done for MSW only, other ports
215 // should follow a.s.a.p.
216 #if defined(__WXPALMOS__)
217 #include "wx/palmos/evtloop.h"
218 #elif defined(__WXMSW__)
219 #include "wx/msw/evtloop.h"
220 #elif defined(__WXMAC__)
221 #include "wx/osx/evtloop.h"
222 #elif defined(__WXCOCOA__)
223 #include "wx/cocoa/evtloop.h"
224 #elif defined(__WXDFB__)
225 #include "wx/dfb/evtloop.h"
226 #elif defined(__WXGTK20__)
227 #include "wx/gtk/evtloop.h"
228 #else // other platform
230 #include "wx/stopwatch.h" // for wxMilliClock_t
232 class WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_CORE wxEventLoopImpl
;
234 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxGUIEventLoop
: public wxEventLoopBase
237 wxGUIEventLoop() { m_impl
= NULL
; }
238 virtual ~wxGUIEventLoop();
241 virtual void Exit(int rc
= 0);
242 virtual bool Pending() const;
243 virtual bool Dispatch();
244 virtual int DispatchTimeout(unsigned long timeout
)
246 // TODO: this is, of course, horribly inefficient and a proper wait with
247 // timeout should be implemented for all ports natively...
248 const wxMilliClock_t timeEnd
= wxGetLocalTimeMillis() + timeout
;
254 if ( wxGetLocalTimeMillis() >= timeEnd
)
258 virtual void WakeUp() { }
259 virtual bool YieldFor(long eventsToProcess
);
262 // the pointer to the port specific implementation class
263 wxEventLoopImpl
*m_impl
;
265 wxDECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxGUIEventLoop
);
270 // also include the header defining wxConsoleEventLoop for Unix systems
271 #if defined(__UNIX__)
272 #include "wx/unix/evtloop.h"
275 // we use a class rather than a typedef because wxEventLoop is forward-declared
278 class wxEventLoop
: public wxGUIEventLoop
{ };
280 // we can't define wxEventLoop differently in GUI and base libraries so use
281 // a #define to still allow writing wxEventLoop in the user code
282 #if wxUSE_CONSOLE_EVENTLOOP && (defined(__WXMSW__) || defined(__UNIX__))
283 #define wxEventLoop wxConsoleEventLoop
284 #else // we still must define it somehow for the code below...
285 #define wxEventLoop wxEventLoopBase
289 inline bool wxEventLoopBase::IsRunning() const { return GetActive() == this; }
292 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
294 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
296 // this is a naive generic implementation which uses wxWindowDisabler to
297 // implement modality, we will surely need platform-specific implementations
298 // too, this generic implementation is here only temporarily to see how it
300 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxModalEventLoop
: public wxGUIEventLoop
303 wxModalEventLoop(wxWindow
*winModal
)
305 m_windowDisabler
= new wxWindowDisabler(winModal
);
309 virtual void OnExit()
311 delete m_windowDisabler
;
312 m_windowDisabler
= NULL
;
314 wxGUIEventLoop::OnExit();
318 wxWindowDisabler
*m_windowDisabler
;
323 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
324 // wxEventLoopActivator: helper class for wxEventLoop implementations
325 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
327 // this object sets the wxEventLoop given to the ctor as the currently active
328 // one and unsets it in its dtor, this is especially useful in presence of
329 // exceptions but is more tidy even when we don't use them
330 class wxEventLoopActivator
333 wxEventLoopActivator(wxEventLoopBase
*evtLoop
)
335 m_evtLoopOld
= wxEventLoopBase::GetActive();
336 wxEventLoopBase::SetActive(evtLoop
);
339 ~wxEventLoopActivator()
341 // restore the previously active event loop
342 wxEventLoopBase::SetActive(m_evtLoopOld
);
346 wxEventLoopBase
*m_evtLoopOld
;
349 #if wxUSE_CONSOLE_EVENTLOOP
351 class wxEventLoopGuarantor
354 wxEventLoopGuarantor()
357 if (!wxEventLoop::GetActive())
359 m_evtLoopNew
= new wxEventLoop
;
360 wxEventLoop::SetActive(m_evtLoopNew
);
364 ~wxEventLoopGuarantor()
368 wxEventLoop::SetActive(NULL
);
374 wxEventLoop
*m_evtLoopNew
;
377 #endif // wxUSE_CONSOLE_EVENTLOOP
379 #endif // _WX_EVTLOOP_H_