Any implementation for one-many message dispatching mechanism in C++?

[BruceWho]

Hi, all

Is there any mature library which implements a global message
dispatching mechanism? I'm playing with wxpython in my spare time, and
I like the pubsub or pyDispatch module very much. Any object can
register a callable object to an event, and when this event happens the
callable object(or maybe more than one objects) is called.

I donnot like MFC's SendMessage() and PostMessage() because we must get
a hWnd at the same time. Maybe more than one object need to be called.
I cannot find such implementation in MFC.

I guess maybe someone has already made such a library, so could anybody
figure me out?

Bruce

[Zara]

On 2 Nov 2006 21:47:20 -0800, "BruceWho" <Br**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi, all

Is there any mature library which implements a global message
dispatching mechanism? I'm playing with wxpython in my spare time, and
I like the pubsub or pyDispatch module very much. Any object can
register a callable object to an event, and when this event happens the
callable object(or maybe more than one objects) is called.

I donnot like MFC's SendMessage() and PostMessage() because we must get
a hWnd at the same time. Maybe more than one object need to be called.
I cannot find such implementation in MFC.

I guess maybe someone has already made such a library, so could anybody
figure me out?

This is off-topic in this list. You should look in some Windows
specific list.

<OT>
Do you know about HWND_BROADCAST?
Take a look at SendMessage documention in msdn.microsoft.com
</OT>

[Zara]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:54:00 +0100, Zara <me*****@dea.spamcon.org>
wrote:

>On 2 Nov 2006 21:47:20 -0800, "BruceWho" <Br**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

>>Is there any mature library which implements a global message
dispatching mechanism? I'm playing with wxpython in my spare time, and
I like the pubsub or pyDispatch module very much. Any object can
register a callable object to an event, and when this event happens the
callable object(or maybe more than one objects) is called.

I donnot like MFC's SendMessage() and PostMessage() because we must get
a hWnd at the same time. Maybe more than one object need to be called.
I cannot find such implementation in MFC.

I guess maybe someone has already made such a library, so could anybody
figure me out?

This is off-topic in this list. You should look in some Windows
specific list.

<OT>
Do you know about HWND_BROADCAST?
Take a look at SendMessage documention in msdn.microsoft.com
</OT>

Sorry for the OT flag on any other list than comp.lang.c++, I didn´t
realise it was multiposted

Zara

[Salt_Peter]

BruceWho wrote:

Hi, all

Is there any mature library which implements a global message
dispatching mechanism? I'm playing with wxpython in my spare time, and
I like the pubsub or pyDispatch module very much. Any object can
register a callable object to an event, and when this event happens the
callable object(or maybe more than one objects) is called.

I donnot like MFC's SendMessage() and PostMessage() because we must get
a hWnd at the same time. Maybe more than one object need to be called.
I cannot find such implementation in MFC.

I guess maybe someone has already made such a library, so could anybody
figure me out?

Bruce

We don't do MFC here.

Check out boost::signals
http://www.boost.org/doc/html/signals.html
or libsigc
http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/

[Michael K. O'Neill]

"BruceWho" <Br**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi, all

Is there any mature library which implements a global message
dispatching mechanism? I'm playing with wxpython in my spare time, and
I like the pubsub or pyDispatch module very much. Any object can
register a callable object to an event, and when this event happens the
callable object(or maybe more than one objects) is called.

I donnot like MFC's SendMessage() and PostMessage() because we must get
a hWnd at the same time. Maybe more than one object need to be called.
I cannot find such implementation in MFC.

I guess maybe someone has already made such a library, so could anybody
figure me out?

Bruce

This sounds to me like a standard observer pattern (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern ) or an event listener pattern
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_listener )

[Larry Smith]

BruceWho wrote:

Hi, all

Is there any mature library which implements a global message
dispatching mechanism? I'm playing with wxpython in my spare time, and
I like the pubsub or pyDispatch module very much. Any object can
register a callable object to an event, and when this event happens the
callable object(or maybe more than one objects) is called.

I donnot like MFC's SendMessage() and PostMessage() because we must get
a hWnd at the same time. Maybe more than one object need to be called.
I cannot find such implementation in MFC.

I guess maybe someone has already made such a library, so could anybody
figure me out?

Bruce

DBUS perhaps?

The Windows port can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/windbus

The main page and docs can be found here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

[BruceWho]

Hi, all

I'm sorry to reply so late.

HWND_BROADCAST is not exactly what I want, I want this message to be
sent to every registered functions, only top level windows can get the
HWND_BROADCAST message.

DBUS is not either. It seems that it is used in two different
applications while the mechanism which I need is only used in one
application.

Yes, what I need is exactly an observer pattern. And boost::signals &
libsigc are what I want, I'll look into them. Thanks for all your help!
Bruce

[AliR \(VC++ MVP\)]

Did this class help you with solving your problem?

http://www.codeproject.com/docview/Broadcaster.asp

AliR.

"BruceWho" <Br**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi, all

I'm sorry to reply so late.

HWND_BROADCAST is not exactly what I want, I want this message to be
sent to every registered functions, only top level windows can get the
HWND_BROADCAST message.

DBUS is not either. It seems that it is used in two different
applications while the mechanism which I need is only used in one
application.

Yes, what I need is exactly an observer pattern. And boost::signals &
libsigc are what I want, I'll look into them. Thanks for all your help!
Bruce