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| author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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| date | Fri, 14 Sep 2001 02:41:09 +0000 |
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| 77 >Chapter 8. Events</A | |
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| 0 | 89 >Introduction</A |
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| 94 >SDL Event Structures.</A | |
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| 99 >Event Functions.</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: | |
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| 115 >SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);</PRE | |
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117 Internally, SDL stores all the events waiting to be handled in an event queue. Using functions like <A |
| 0 | 118 HREF="sdlpollevent.html" |
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| 121 >SDL_PollEvent</TT | |
| 122 ></A | |
| 123 > and <A | |
| 124 HREF="sdlpeepevents.html" | |
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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 | |
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| 139 >SDL_Event</SPAN | |
| 140 > unions, one for each waiting event. <SPAN | |
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| 142 >SDL_Event</SPAN | |
| 143 > unions are read from the queue with the <TT | |
| 144 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
| 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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