libs-base/Headers/Foundation/NSRunLoop.h
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/* Interface for NSRunLoop for GNUStep
Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Andrew Kachites McCallum <mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Created: March 1996
This file is part of the GNUstep Base Library.
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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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
Library 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 Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02111 USA.
*/
#ifndef __NSRunLoop_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#define __NSRunLoop_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#import <GNUstepBase/GSVersionMacros.h>
#import <Foundation/NSMapTable.h>
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
@class NSTimer, NSDate, NSPort;
/**
* Run loop mode used to deal with input sources other than NSConnections or
* dialog windows. Most commonly used. Defined in
* <code>Foundation/NSRunLoop.h</code>.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSString * const NSDefaultRunLoopMode;
@interface NSRunLoop : NSObject
{
#if GS_EXPOSE(NSRunLoop)
@private
NSString *_currentMode;
NSMapTable *_contextMap;
NSMutableArray *_contextStack;
NSMutableArray *_timedPerformers;
void *_extra;
#endif
}
/**
* Returns the run loop instance for the current thread.
*/
+ (NSRunLoop*) currentRunLoop;
#if OS_API_VERSION(MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5,GS_API_LATEST)
/**
* Returns the run loop instance of the main thread.
*/
+ (NSRunLoop*) mainRunLoop;
#endif
- (void) acceptInputForMode: (NSString*)mode
beforeDate: (NSDate*)limit_date;
- (void) addTimer: (NSTimer*)timer
forMode: (NSString*)mode;
- (NSString*) currentMode;
- (NSDate*) limitDateForMode: (NSString*)mode;
- (void) run;
/**
* Calls -limitDateForMode: to determine if a timeout occurs before the
* specified date, then calls -acceptInputForMode:beforeDate: to run the
* loop once.<br />
* The specified date may be nil ... in which case the loop runs
* until the limit date of the first input or timeout.<br />
* If the specified date is in the past, this runs the loop once only,
* to handle any events already available.<br />
* If there are no input sources or timers in mode, this method
* returns NO without running the loop (irrespective of the supplied
* date argument), otherwise returns YES.
*/
- (BOOL) runMode: (NSString*)mode
beforeDate: (NSDate*)date;
- (void) runUntilDate: (NSDate*)date;
@end
@interface NSRunLoop(OPENSTEP)
- (void) addPort: (NSPort*)port
forMode: (NSString*)mode;
- (void) cancelPerformSelectorsWithTarget: (id)target;
- (void) cancelPerformSelector: (SEL)aSelector
target: (id)target
argument: (id)argument;
- (void) configureAsServer;
- (void) performSelector: (SEL)aSelector
target: (id)target
argument: (id)argument
order: (NSUInteger)order
modes: (NSArray*)modes;
- (void) removePort: (NSPort*)port
forMode: (NSString*)mode;
@end
/** This type specifies the kinds of event which may be 'watched' in a
* run loop.
*/
typedef enum {
#ifdef __MINGW__
ET_HANDLE, /* Watch for an I/O event on a handle. */
ET_RPORT, /* Watch for message arriving on port. */
ET_WINMSG, /* Watch for a message on a window handle. */
ET_TRIGGER /* Trigger immediately when the loop runs. */
#else
ET_RDESC, /* Watch for descriptor becoming readable. */
ET_WDESC, /* Watch for descriptor becoming writeable. */
ET_RPORT, /* Watch for message arriving on port. */
ET_EDESC, /* Watch for descriptor with out-of-band data. */
ET_TRIGGER /* Trigger immediately when the loop runs. */
#endif
} RunLoopEventType;
/** This protocol defines the mandatory interface a run loop watcher must
* provide in order for it to be notified of events occurring in the loop
* it is watching.<br />
* Optional methods are documented in the NSObject(RunLoopEvents)
* category.
*/
@protocol RunLoopEvents
/** This is the message sent back to a watcher when an event is observed
* by the run loop.<br />
* The 'data', 'type' and 'mode' arguments are the same as the arguments
* passed to the -addEvent:type:watcher:forMode: method.<br />
* The 'extra' argument varies. For an ET_TRIGGER event, it is the same
* as the 'data' argument. For other events on unix it is the file
* descriptor associated with the event (which may be the same as the
* 'data' argument, but is not in the case of ET_RPORT).<br />
* For windows it will be the handle or the windows message assciated
* with the event.
*/
- (void) receivedEvent: (void*)data
type: (RunLoopEventType)type
extra: (void*)extra
forMode: (NSString*)mode;
@end
/** This informal protocol defiens optional methods of the run loop watcher.
*/
@interface NSObject (RunLoopEvents)
/** Called by the run loop to find out whether it needs to block to wait
* for events for this watcher. The shouldTrigger flag is used to inform
* the run loop if tit should immediately trigger a received event for the
* watcher.
*/
- (BOOL) runLoopShouldBlock: (BOOL*)shouldTrigger;
@end
/**
* The run loop watcher API was originally intended to perform two
* tasks ...
* 1. provide the most efficient API reasonably possible to integrate
* unix networking code into the runloop.
* 2. provide a standard mechanism to allow people to contribute
* code to add new I/O mechanisms to GNUstep (OpenStep didn't allow this).
* It succeeded in 1, and partially succeeded in 2 (adding support
* for the win32 API).
*/
@interface NSRunLoop(GNUstepExtensions)
/** Adds a watcher to the receiver ... the watcher is used to monitor events
* of the specified type which are associted with the event handle data and
* it operates in the specified run loop modes.<br />
* The watcher remains in place until a corresponding call to
* -removeEvent:type:forMode:all: is made.
*/
- (void) addEvent: (void*)data
type: (RunLoopEventType)type
watcher: (id<RunLoopEvents>)watcher
forMode: (NSString*)mode;
/** Removes a watcher from the receiver ... the watcher must have been
* previously added using -addEvent:type:watcher:forMode:<br />
* This method mirrors exactly one addition of a watcher unless removeAll
* is YES, in which case it removes all additions of watchers matching the
* other paramters.
*/
- (void) removeEvent: (void*)data
type: (RunLoopEventType)type
forMode: (NSString*)mode
all: (BOOL)removeAll;
@end
#if defined(__cplusplus)
}
#endif
#endif /*__NSRunLoop_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE */