1Eventloop(3)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         Eventloop(3)
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NAME

6       Tk::Event - ToolKit for Events
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SYNOPSIS

9        use Tk::Event;
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11        Tk::Event->fileevent(\*FH, 'readable' => callback);
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13        Tk::Event->lineavail(\*FH, callback);
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15        use Tk::Event::Signal qw(INT);
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17        $SIG{'INT'} = callback;
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19        use Tk::Event::process;
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21        Tk::Event->proc($pid, callback);
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23        QueueEvent(callback [, position])
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DESCRIPTION

26       That is better than nothing but still hard to use. Most scripts want
27       higher level result (a line, a "block" of data etc.)
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29       So it has occured to me that we could use new-ish TIEHANDLE thus:
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31        my $obj = tie SOMEHANDLE,Tk::Event::IO;
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33        while (<SOMEHANDLE>)
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37       Then the READLINE routine registers a callback and looks something
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40        sub READLINE
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43          Event->io(*$obj,'readable',sub { sysread(*$obj,${*$obj},1,length(${*$obj}) });
44          my $pos;
45          while (($pos = index(${*$obj},$/) < 0)
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47            DoOneEvent();
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49          Event->io(*$obj,'readable',''); # unregister
50          $pos += length($/);
51          my $result = substr(${*$obj},0,$pos);
52          substr(${*$obj},0,$pos) = '';
53          return $result;
54         }
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56       This is using the scalar part of the glob representing the _inner_ IO
57       as a buffer in which to accumulate chars.
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61perl v5.16.3                      2014-06-10                      Eventloop(3)