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Object-Oriented Callbacks
Issue: 2.3 (December/January 2003)
Author: Charles Yeomans
Author Bio: Charles Yeomans is a software developer in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Article Length (in bytes): 5,376
Starting Page Number: 36
Article Number: 2316
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callback is a technique in which one passes a function pointer to another function or data structure; this function pointer can then be called at some later point in time. This bit of indirection is a standard trick in C programming. However, REALbasic doesn't support pointer programming. To see how to implement callbacks in REALbasic, let's take a look at some basic problems for which one might use a callback in C, introduce some new jargon, and explore how to solve these problems in REALbasic.Notification
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