Event.java

/*
 * This file is part of CBCJVM.
 * CBCJVM is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 * 
 * CBCJVM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * 
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 */

package cbccore.events;

/**
 * Every event should subclass this. Event types may be dynamic, and you can
 * decide how to deal with this, or they can be static (most common). Look at
 * the example code in the "tests" folder included in the CBCJVM distribution.
 * This class also contains a public "data" variable of type "E" for easy ad-hoc
 * expandablity.
 * 
 * @author Braden McDorman, Benjamin Woodruff
 * @see    EventManager
 * @see    EventType
 */

public class Event<E> extends java.util.EventObject {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 146392288658724975L;
	private EventType handle;
	public E data;
	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private EventManager manager;
	
	public Event(EventType handle) {
		this(handle, null);
	}
	
	public Event(EventType handle, Object source) {
		super(source);
		this.handle = handle;
	}
	public EventType getType() {
		return handle;
	}
	public void emit() {
		EventManager.get().__emit(this);
	}
	//this function would mess up static event types, by removing all of a type
	//suspending until we find a cleaner way of doing this
	/*public void dispose() {
		EventManager.get().__dispose(this);
		handle = -1;
	}*/
}