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Subject: Re: Event mechanisms for GUI's
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Ed Falis wrote:
> 
> Not sure I fully understand what you mean by configurable message
> queues, but the model sounds similar to the BeOS/Haiku/Zeta approach
> described at
> http://beunited.org/bebook/The%20Application%20Kit/topic_Messaging.html
> 
> What do you think?

Underneath it may have have a similar model, but its main thrust seems 
to be similar to registering callbacks (BHandler) and giving up control 
to a main loop (BLooper) in many GUI frameworks.

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