Event handling

Draw is an event rather than a virtual function so that all the work of the tableau is done in the handle_impl function. The reasoning here is that a tableau should generally be in the same state when drawing as when handling other events. For example, a scribble program which plots points under the mouse should draw the points in the same coordinate system as it received them. If draw and handle were different functions, the implementer would have to ensure that the state-handling code was identical in both cases.

The zoomer tableau must likely wishes to capture some mouse events in order to easily change the image pan and zoom. Each tableau implements an event handler which takes a vgui_event structure, and either uses the event that it defines, or passes it to its children. In the zoomer example, this might be written