Re: Event-driven / callback programming of mouse or keyboard

Bruce Sherwood <[email protected]> Mon, 21 May 2012 12:52:56 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.visualpython.user
Message-ID <CAFDG03i_mR5_0jx5Z6yrcQeMDUWpZcYnJiUJ+spvRXaOFYvDmg@mail.gmail.com>
I can't think of a way to do that within the existing structure.

I'll mention that in the new GlowScript (glowscript.org:
JavaScript/CoffeeScript plus WebGl, based on the VPython design),
events are handled with callbacks.

Bruce Sherwood

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Sophie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any way to do event-driven programming, with callbacks for mouse or keyboard events? I would rather not use the polling style shown in example on the web site.
>
> e.g.
>
> onKey('a', processKeyA)
>
> onMouseDown(processMouseDown)
>
> onMouseDownOn(myCube, processMouseDownOnObject)
>
> Thanks!

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