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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Sat Nov 24 16:11:40 2007 UTC (17 years ago) by root
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# Content
1 NAME
2 Glib::EV - Coerce Glib into using the EV module as event loop.
3
4 SYNOPSIS
5 use Glib::EV;
6
7 # example with Gtk2:
8 use Gtk2 -init;
9 use Glib::EV;
10 use EV; # any order
11 my $timer = EV::timer 1, 1, sub { print "I am here!\n" };
12 main Gtk2;
13 # etc., it just works
14
15 # You can even move the glib mainloop into a coroutine:
16 use Gtk2 -init;
17 use Coro;
18 use Coro::EV;
19 use Glib::EV;
20 async { main Gtk2 };
21 # ... do other things
22
23 DESCRIPTION
24 This module coerces the Glib event loop to use the EV high performance
25 event loop as underlying event loop, i.e. EV will be used by Glib for
26 all events.
27
28 This makes Glib compatible to EV. Calls into the Glib main loop are more
29 or less equivalent to calls to "EV::loop" (but not vice versa, you
30 *have* to use the Glib mainloop functions).
31
32 * The Glib perl module is not used.
33 This module has no dependency on the existing Glib perl interface,
34 as it uses glib directly. The Glib module can, however, be used
35 without any problems (as long as evereybody uses shared libraries to
36 keep everybody else happy).
37
38 * The default context will be changed when the module is loaded.
39 Loading this module will automatically "patch" the default context
40 of libglib, so normally nothing more is required.
41
42 * Glib does not allow recursive invocations.
43 This means that none of your event watchers might call into Glib
44 functions or functions that might call glib functions (basically all
45 Gtk2 functions). It might work, but that's your problem....
46
47 BUGS
48 * No documented API to patch other main contexts.
49
50 SEE ALSO
51 EV, Glib, Glib::MainLoop.
52
53 AUTHOR
54 Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
55 http://home.schmorp.de/
56