Aloe Events Crate

Aloe-events is a sophisticated Rust crate designed to facilitate interprocess communication and event management in complex applications. This crate is particularly useful in contexts where an application is built on a multi-platform event-driven architecture, such as GUI-based applications or those requiring robust inter-process messaging.

Features

• Interprocess Communication: Aloe-events enables seamless communication between master and slave processes, allowing for the sending and receiving of messages through sockets or named pipes. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication paradigms, making it suitable for a variety of use cases.

• Event Management: The crate provides mechanisms to send and receive events, manage listeners, and broadcast changes. With traits like ActionListener, ChangeListener, and InterprocessCommunicationInterface, it ensures efficient event handling.

• Timer Management: Timer and MultiTimer classes enable repeated callbacks at specified intervals, providing timed operations that are crucial in a GUI context.

• Application Lifecycle Management: Interfaces such as ALOEApplicationBaseInterface and macros to start Aloe applications (START_ALOE_APPLICATION) are included, which simplify the setup and teardown of application processes.

Usage

To use this crate, start by including it in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
aloe-events = "0.1.0"

Example

use aloe_events::{ChildProcessMaster, ChildProcessSlave};

fn main() {
    let mut master = ChildProcessMaster::default();
    if master.launch_slave_process(&"./slave_executable", &"uniqueID", None, None) {
        master.send_message_to_slave(...); // communicate with the slave
    }
}

Crate Structure

• Notification Types: Enum NotificationType specifies the type of notification to send—either synchronous, asynchronous, or none.

• Interprocess Communication Enums: InterprocessCommunicationNotify determines whether to notify on disconnections.

• Event Traits: Implement user-defined logic for handling events by implementing provided traits such as ActionListener and MessageListenerInterface.

• Built-in Macros: Macros for application management enable cross-platform compatibility with specific adaptations for Windows and iOS.

Technical Considerations

The crate is designed with high performance and low-overhead communication in mind, leveraging Rust's safe concurrency model to prevent race conditions and ensure reliable message delivery.

Note: This README.md was generated by an AI model and may not be 100% accurate. However, it should be pretty good.

This crate is a translation of the JUCE module.

JUCE is a c++ software framework for developing high performance audio applications.

Usage falls under the GPLv3 as well as the JUCE commercial license.

See github.com/juce-framework/JUCE and the JUCE license page for details.

This crate is in the process of being translated from c++ to rust. For progress updates, please see the workspacer rust project. designed specifically for rust projects.