general-handle-event

general-handle-event Generic Function

Summary

"handles" an event, depending on the type of the event object.

Package

Signature

general-handle-event event-object

Arguments

event-object⇩

A Lisp object.

Description

The generic function general-handle-event "handles" event-object. What this actually means depends on the type of the object.

There are system defined methods for these classes:

list	Apply the car to the cdr.
function	Call it.
symbol	If fbound call it, otherwise do nothing.
`t`	Do nothing.

You can add methods for your own classes.

general-handle-event is used by all functions that process events, for example wait-processing-events and process-all-events, as well as by internal waiting functions.