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date | Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:31:57 +0000 |
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94 >SDL Event Structures.</A | |
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0 | 109 >Introduction</A |
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111 ><P | |
112 >Event handling allows your application to receive input from the user. Event handling is initalised (along with video) with a call to: | |
113 <PRE | |
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115 >SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);</PRE | |
116 > | |
117 Interally, SDL stores all the events waiting to be handled in an event queue. Using functions like <A | |
118 HREF="sdlpollevent.html" | |
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121 >SDL_PollEvent</TT | |
122 ></A | |
123 > and <A | |
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126 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
127 >SDL_PeepEvents</TT | |
128 ></A | |
129 > you can observe and handle waiting input events.</P | |
130 ><P | |
131 >The key to event handling in SDL is the <A | |
132 HREF="sdlevent.html" | |
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134 CLASS="STRUCTNAME" | |
135 >SDL_Event</SPAN | |
136 ></A | |
137 > union. The event queue itself is composed of a series of <SPAN | |
138 CLASS="STRUCTNAME" | |
139 >SDL_Event</SPAN | |
140 > unions, one for each waiting event. <SPAN | |
141 CLASS="STRUCTNAME" | |
142 >SDL_Event</SPAN | |
143 > unions are read from the queue with the <TT | |
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145 >SDL_PollEvent</TT | |
146 > function and it is then up to the application to process the information stored with them.</P | |
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