Observables Declaration

Table of Contents

• About
• Declaration
• Further Reading

About

An interface can declare one or many observables. Such an observable can be used to receive a signal on certain events within that interface.

Declaration

Observables are declared within an interface:

// This example shows an interface declaring an observable.
 
class ObserveMeInterface : MAXON_INTERFACE_BASES(maxon::ObserverObjectInterface)
{
  MAXON_INTERFACE(ObserveMeInterface, MAXON_REFERENCE_NORMAL, "net.maxonexample.interfaces.observeme");
 
public:
  //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Function makes "Ping".
  //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  MAXON_METHOD void Ping();
 
  //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Signal fired when Ping() is called.
  //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  MAXON_OBSERVABLE(void, ObservablePing, (maxon::Int32 count), maxon::ObservableCombinerRunAllComponent);
};

The MAXON_OBSERVABLE() attribute defines the following options:

• the return value of the callback function
• the name of the observable
• the argument list of the callback function

Further Reading

• Observables
• Observables Implementation
• Observables Usage