Dev:Events
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aMSN Internals Overview: Events
Introduction
To seperate gui and protocol, and to abstract things it is necessary that the model(protocol) has no knowledge of the gui. But if this is so, how can the model notify the gui of things that happened? This is where events come in. When something happens (a contact comes online) the model handles everything, and it fires an event (contactChangeState for example). That is all it does, it never has to call a proc in the gui namespace. This way, it is fairly easy to change the whole gui without changing a single bit in the model. Now the gui, who has registered itself to listen to certain events from certain sources, has in this case registered itself to listen to contactChangeState events from all sources. So when the event is fired, the contactChangeState proc of the gui will be called with the appropriate arguments. It can then use it to update the display. The GUI on the other hand does have to know the model, but this is not a problem. There just has to be a good API, that we won't change too much. Also, you can create another model (like lets say a jabber one, wich has the same api, so it can be used by the gui.
Complete Events
contactlistLoaded
This event is called when the initial contact list is loaded. It can happen that is finished downloading from the server or that it is loaded from the hard-disk.
contactDataChange (user_login)
When a visual data has changed. We should redraw the contact list.
groupAdded (Group_ID)
A group is succesfully added.
groupDeleted (Group_ID)
A group is successfully deleted
groupRenamed (Group_ID, Group_Name)
A group is successfuly renamed
contactAdded (user_login, New_Group_ID)
A contact is succesfully added.
loggedOut ()
We're successfully logged out.
myNickChange ()
Our nickname has changed
contactNickChange (user_login)
The nick of a contact has changed
contactBlocked (user_login)
A contact is blocked
contactUnBlocked (user_login)
A contact is unblocked
contactMoved (user_login, Old_Group_ID, New_Group_ID)
A contact is moved from an Old_Group_ID to New_Group)
contactRemoved (user_login, Group_ID)
A contact is removed from Group_ID
contactChangeState ( ...)
contactPSMChange (user_login)
messageReceived
loggedIn
Incomplete Events
groupAddFailed
A group failed to be added
groupDeleteFailed
A group failed to be deleted (eg group isnt empty)
groupRenameFailed
A group failde to be renamed
contactDeleted
A contact was successfully deleted
contactDeleteFailed
A contact failed to be deleted (eg it doesn't exist anyway)
contactAddFailed
A contact failed to be added (eg it's already in the group)
contactBlocked
A contact was successfully added to the BL
contactBlockFailed
A contact failed to be added to the BL (eg it doesn't exist)
