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| 57 | 2.8.1 Application Objects |
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| 60 | <P> |
| 61 | Application objects have the following methods, among others: |
| 62 | |
| 63 | <P> |
| 64 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 65 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-109' xml:id='l2h-109' class="method">makeusermenus</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 66 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 67 | <dd> |
| 68 | Override this method if you need menus in your application. Append the |
| 69 | menus to the attribute <tt class="member">menubar</tt>. |
| 70 | </dl> |
| 71 | |
| 72 | <P> |
| 73 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 74 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-110' xml:id='l2h-110' class="method">getabouttext</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 75 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 76 | <dd> |
| 77 | Override this method to return a text string describing your |
| 78 | application. Alternatively, override the <tt class="method">do_about()</tt> method |
| 79 | for more elaborate ``about'' messages. |
| 80 | </dl> |
| 81 | |
| 82 | <P> |
| 83 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 84 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-111' xml:id='l2h-111' class="method">mainloop</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 85 | <td><var></var><big>[</big><var>mask</var><big>[</big><var>, wait</var><big>]</big><var></var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 86 | <dd> |
| 87 | This routine is the main event loop, call it to set your application |
| 88 | rolling. <var>Mask</var> is the mask of events you want to handle, |
| 89 | <var>wait</var> is the number of ticks you want to leave to other |
| 90 | concurrent application (default 0, which is probably not a good |
| 91 | idea). While raising <var>self</var> to exit the mainloop is still |
| 92 | supported it is not recommended: call <code>self._quit()</code> instead. |
| 93 | |
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| 95 | The event loop is split into many small parts, each of which can be |
| 96 | overridden. The default methods take care of dispatching events to |
| 97 | windows and dialogs, handling drags and resizes, Apple Events, events |
| 98 | for non-FrameWork windows, etc. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | <P> |
| 101 | In general, all event handlers should return <code>1</code> if the event is fully |
| 102 | handled and <code>0</code> otherwise (because the front window was not a FrameWork |
| 103 | window, for instance). This is needed so that update events and such |
| 104 | can be passed on to other windows like the Sioux console window. |
| 105 | Calling <tt class="function">MacOS.HandleEvent()</tt> is not allowed within |
| 106 | <var>our_dispatch</var> or its callees, since this may result in an |
| 107 | infinite loop if the code is called through the Python inner-loop |
| 108 | event handler. |
| 109 | </dl> |
| 110 | |
| 111 | <P> |
| 112 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 113 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-112' xml:id='l2h-112' class="method">asyncevents</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 114 | <td><var>onoff</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 115 | <dd> |
| 116 | Call this method with a nonzero parameter to enable |
| 117 | asynchronous event handling. This will tell the inner interpreter loop |
| 118 | to call the application event handler <var>async_dispatch</var> whenever events |
| 119 | are available. This will cause FrameWork window updates and the user |
| 120 | interface to remain working during long computations, but will slow the |
| 121 | interpreter down and may cause surprising results in non-reentrant code |
| 122 | (such as FrameWork itself). By default <var>async_dispatch</var> will immediately |
| 123 | call <var>our_dispatch</var> but you may override this to handle only certain |
| 124 | events asynchronously. Events you do not handle will be passed to Sioux |
| 125 | and such. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <P> |
| 128 | The old on/off value is returned. |
| 129 | </dl> |
| 130 | |
| 131 | <P> |
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| 133 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-113' xml:id='l2h-113' class="method">_quit</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 134 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 135 | <dd> |
| 136 | Terminate the running <tt class="method">mainloop()</tt> call at the next convenient |
| 137 | moment. |
| 138 | </dl> |
| 139 | |
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| 142 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-114' xml:id='l2h-114' class="method">do_char</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 143 | <td><var>c, event</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 144 | <dd> |
| 145 | The user typed character <var>c</var>. The complete details of the event |
| 146 | can be found in the <var>event</var> structure. This method can also be |
| 147 | provided in a <code>Window</code> object, which overrides the |
| 148 | application-wide handler if the window is frontmost. |
| 149 | </dl> |
| 150 | |
| 151 | <P> |
| 152 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 153 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-115' xml:id='l2h-115' class="method">do_dialogevent</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 154 | <td><var>event</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 155 | <dd> |
| 156 | Called early in the event loop to handle modeless dialog events. The |
| 157 | default method simply dispatches the event to the relevant dialog (not |
| 158 | through the <code>DialogWindow</code> object involved). Override if you |
| 159 | need special handling of dialog events (keyboard shortcuts, etc). |
| 160 | </dl> |
| 161 | |
| 162 | <P> |
| 163 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 164 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-116' xml:id='l2h-116' class="method">idle</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 165 | <td><var>event</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 166 | <dd> |
| 167 | Called by the main event loop when no events are available. The |
| 168 | null-event is passed (so you can look at mouse position, etc). |
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