From: Matthijs Langenberg <mlangenberg@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T04:44:37+09:00
Subject: Writing event hooks called from C extensions

Just for educational purposes, I'm trying to write a Ruby-C extension
that allows me to hook into Carbon's event handler. So I can handle
mouse clicks in Ruby.
Mouse clicks (like all events) happen asynchronously, meaning that
something needs to be running inside a seperate thread, but I find it
hard to grasp how this all works out.

I've already figured out the following code: http://pastie.org/204180.
This allows me to include the 'MouseEvents' module somewhere and call
'hook'. This works, and prints 'click' to my console, but it blocks
ruby.

Would it be possible to start a seperate Thread from inside the C
extension, which calls into ruby (or executes a block) asynchronously?

- Matt