Eventhandling

[mark]

I am writing networking-support for my application:

o My server is waiting for incoming data (type: char*).
o When data arrives, the servercode fires an event.
o This event is caught by my networkingmodule which has an eventqueue and computes the received data.

Now I have some questions:

1) My server inherits from iEventOutlet and does the following:

this->netevent = CreateEvent();
this->netevent->Add(XXX);
Post(this->netevent);

what do I have to insert into "XXX"?
I guess I have to use

Code:

virtual bool iEvent::Add   (   const char *   name,
  const char *   v
  )

-> "const char* v" will be my my received data?
what shall "const char* name" be?

2) My networking-module inherits from csBaseEventHandler.
I know I will use one of the several methods to compute my event-data but how do I catch events from the server-code?
There should be a "link" in the code between server and netmodule, but how can I establish it?

3) What is the difference between broadcasts and commands?

[mark]

1) was answered in the CS-IRC: v will be my data and name will be "netevent"

2) EventPlug -> Outlet -> Queue is the link between these classes, but I stiil don't know how to use this.

[oktal]

1) You should inherit from iEventPlug, not iEventSocket. A reference to an iEventSocket is provided to you by the event queue.

2) Register your event handler with the RegisterListener method in iEventQueue.

3) Broadcast is a type of command where the handler's return value is ignored. Usually, if a handler returns true, the event is marked as handled and not passed to any other handlers. Broadcasts are sent to all handlers regardless.