Event driven programming

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  1. zigzag254's Avatar
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    Event driven programming
    A quick question guys,
    just wanted to know if anyone can tell me what event driven programming is not good for, I'm not looking for disadvantages, but what they are not good for

    Peace
  2. D-Box's Avatar
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    Re: Event driven programming
    When making a really simple progam (e.g. calculating the area of a circle) then it would be simpler to use batch programming. Event driven ones are often more complex.
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    Re: Event driven programming
    Event-driven programming is a flexible way to allow your programs to respond to many different inputs or events. This style is easy to understand and program. The problem is when your programs need to become more sophisticated and must deal with more than just you entering information on the keyboard. The events may be
    Pressing a key
    RS-232 serial data
    Digital sound recording and playback
    System events
    Touch-screen events

    Event-driven programs improve on sequential programs by having a central event handler and dispatcher that waits for an event (any event) to occur, and then processes that event by calling that event handler.

    Separation of the event detection and the event handling is an important technique for keeping your program simple and flexible
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    Re: Event driven programming
    (Original post by marygoss)
    Event-driven programming is a flexible way to allow your programs to respond to many different inputs or events. This style is easy to understand and program. The problem is when your programs need to become more sophisticated and must deal with more than just you entering information on the keyboard. The events may be
    Pressing a key
    RS-232 serial data
    Digital sound recording and playback
    System events
    Touch-screen events

    Event-driven programs improve on sequential programs by having a central event handler and dispatcher that waits for an event (any event) to occur, and then processes that event by calling that event handler.

    Separation of the event detection and the event handling is an important technique for keeping your program simple and flexible


    can you tell me where I can find more info on event driven programming and its key features and trigger please
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