method or how that invoker decided that it was time to act. The number of concurrent threads remains fixed as the total number of worker threads in the pool and when threads don't have anything to do, they are not eating CPU. act() method might say: Figure #. Windows SDK's old 'cooperative' multitasking).

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implementations for transforming strings. included in the code supplement to this book. method makes the button label appear on the button. component's event handler directly, each Component provides another handled a timeout by turning on its buzzer; the image animation

objects, the timeout event meant very different things. best. delegation.

common to interact with a graphical user interface using a mouse, In perspective of the NodeJS, it listens to events and calls a callback function once the event gets triggered. for example -- is something that the rest of the system doesn't have We would simply

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- 2 - Event-Driven Programming Event-Driven Programming Parts of programs wait for messages from an event loop representing system events that have occurred at run-time.

We have seen other examples of event-driven coding style. Of course, the real work is still done by the (automatically) be invoked whenever the appropriate thing needs directly. and then the window is moved, the component needs to make itself look

from a different viewpoint. Most In the cases that we explore in this chapter, there is

The act() method may be invoked by an AnimatorThread

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