gaphor/docs/event_system.md

Event System

The Generic library provides the generic.event module which is used to implement the event system in Gaphor. This event system in Gaphor provides an API to subscribe to events and to then handle those events so that previously subscribed handlers are executed.

In Gaphor we manage event handler subscriptions through the EventManager service. Gaphor is highly event driven:

• Changes in the loaded model are emitted as events
• Changes on diagrams are emitted as events
• Changes in the UI are emitted as events

Although Gaphor depends heavily on GTK for its user interface, Gaphor is using its own event dispatcher. Events can be structured in hierarchies. For example, an AttributeUpdated event is a subtype of ElementUpdated. If we are interested in all changes to elements, we can also register ElementUpdated and receive all AttributeUpdated events as well.

.. autoclass:: gaphor.core.eventmanager.EventManager
   :members:

For more information about how the Generic library handles events see the Generic documentation.