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Making a Hostkit Event in Rebol3


I'm making a Rebol 3 extension that has GUI events. For now, I manage this using synchronous callbacks so each time an event happens like a mouse move, the C extension calls the Rebol callback function. But I'd like to manage this using REBEVT and RL->event.

Here is a code sample:

case SDL_MOUSEMOTION:

    Add_Event_XY(
        RootGob, 2, (event.motion.x + (event.motion.y << 16)), EVT_MOVE
    );

    /*
    cbi.obj = CBI_SDL_MOUSEMOTION.obj;
    cbi.word = CBI_SDL_MOUSEMOTION.word;
    RXI_COUNT(args) = 1;
    RXI_TYPE(args, 1) = RXT_PAIR;
    args[1].pair.x = event.motion.x;
    args[1].pair.y = event.motion.y;
    n = RL_CALLBACK(&cbi);
    if(n == 0) {RL_PRINT("%s\n", "callback error");}
    */
    break;

But then when I do a wait in Rebol, I get:

>> wait 1
** Script error: wake-up does not allow none! for its port argument
** Where: loop -apply- wait
** Near: loop 8 [
    unless event: take sport/state [break]
    port...

How to make the port not null?


Solution

  • After some searches in R3 code, I found that I had to initialize as below:

    system/view/event-port: open event://
    

    Now it works! (with R3 mainline)