Object Events, how do are they implemented

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Published on 2010-04-21T18:11:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 18:13 UTC
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Events are really awesome, and I wouldn't know what I would do without them, but they're a mystery to me.

I'm talking about events in a sense, a function(s) is called if a property, or value, a special event happens.

I have only the vaguest idea how these actually work. I know it's an observer pattern, but I don't truly know how it works and/or how to implement it.

Can someone explain that to me?

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