Event System

[Dan Rosen <dr cs brown edu>]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this particular mailing list, but
I know I'm reaching the right audience:

I'm looking for a rather detailed background on GTK's event system (i.e.
the entire control framework with callbacks, marshallers and all the
associated bells and whistles). I'm sort of hoping that at least there is
a book or two you might recommend to introduce the principles behind the
system, but some personal information would be much appreciated.

For those curious, I'm looking for this information for my senior honors 
thesis in CS here at Brown. I'm developing an event-based system for
doing basically anything with XML. An example of this would be an XML
editor in which the document tree is updated in real-time, but examples
could get much more complicated (in which certain manipulations of the
tree could have program functionality associated with them, or could
trigger certain manipulations on other trees).

For those *really* curious, my website contains some information about
this stuff: <http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/dr/xml>.

Regardless, I'm eager to hear back from some of you. It would likely be
appropriate to respond to me personally rather than post off-topic to this
list.

Thanks very much,
Dan Rosen