Event Processing

event processing is a multitasking technique in which a program learns of events and responds to them.

See Also

event-oriented programming

Tcl event loop

One of the components of Tcl's asynchronous event mechanism Tcl.

Event programming and why it is relevant to Tcl/Tk programming

How to mimic event generation without TK

One approach to providing user-defined events without relying on window systems or I/O. Probably a predecessor of uevent.

uevent

A module in Tcllib that provides an event system somewhat similar to that of Tk.

windowing system events

Description

In Tcl, channel events and after events are sent to the notifier. Tk sends windowing system events to the notifier. The Tcl C API provides means for any extension to create its own event types, and also to communicate and process events.