/** *

This example shows how to easily integrate the EventDispatcher helper to * quickly realise the Observer design pattern in your own classes. All you need * to do is define an interface for your event listeners and add a public field * for the EventDispatcher in your observable class.

* *

The concrete example here is using a DelayManager class to trigger * micro-threads to delay individual key events. Whenever a delay is finished, * the manager then distributes the event to all listeners.

* *

Usage: Press any key to trigger delayed events

*/ /* * Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Karsten Schmidt * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/ * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA */ import toxi.util.events.*; DelayManager manager = new DelayManager(); void setup() { size(100,100); manager.listeners.addListener(new DummyListener()); } void draw() { } // pass key presses to manager void keyPressed() { manager.queueEvent(); } // this interface defines a function name for our event listeners interface DelayedTriggerListener { void delayedAction(long timeStamp); } // this mini class is an actual event listener implementation // it's registered with the manager in setup() class DummyListener implements DelayedTriggerListener { void delayedAction(long from) { println("delayed event from: "+new Date(from)+" now: "+new Date()); } } // actual "observable" manager class using // the EventDispatcher helper class this whole demo is about class DelayManager { EventDispatcher listeners = new EventDispatcher(); // trigger a new delayed event void queueEvent() { new DelayThread(this,System.currentTimeMillis(),2000).start(); } // called when the delay is finished, notifies all listeners void broadcastEvent(DelayThread t) { for(DelayedTriggerListener l : listeners) { l.delayedAction(t.timeStamp); } } } // simple helper class to delay an individual event class DelayThread extends Thread { long timeStamp; long delay; DelayManager parent; DelayThread(DelayManager parent, long timeStamp, long delay) { this.parent = parent; this.timeStamp = timeStamp; this.delay = delay; } void run() { try { if (delay > 0) { Thread.sleep(delay); } parent.broadcastEvent(this); } catch (InterruptedException e) { } } }