Re: [AD] various questions about events (4.3)

["Matthew Leverton" <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/22/07, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can actually only think of one event type I'd like to filter, which is
> mouse movement events in a GUI program, and even that is dubious if you
> want widgets to highlight when you hover the mouse cursor on top of
> them.  So we can probably just take the whole thing out.
At this point, I don't think we need any filtering capabilities. Not
registering the event source is already one level of filtering. It
will be easier to add it in the future than remove it.

> Should we remove al_wait_for_specific_event?  It also requires event
> types to be bitfields.  I never liked that design much anyway.  The user
> can implement a more application specific filter using al_wait_for_event.
To me, it seems like it could be useful. I was using it as a readkey()
replacement for simple test programs. (That is, when I didn't even
care about the return result.)

But again, it's always easier to add features down the road, than to
remove them (after they go into a release).

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Matthew Leverton