Event Handling
Include File(s): SDL_events.h
Contents
Introduction
Event handling allows your application to receive input from the user. Event handling is initialized (along with video) with a call to:
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
(see Initialization & Shutdown and SDL_Init() for details)
Internally, SDL stores all the events waiting to be handled in an event queue. Using functions like SDL_PollEvent(), SDL_PeepEvents() and SDL_WaitEvent() you can observe and handle waiting input events.
The event queue itself is composed of a series of SDL_Event structures, one for each waiting event. SDL_Event structures are read from the queue with the SDL_PollEvent() function and it is then up to the application to process the information stored with them.
Enumerations
Structures
- SDL_DollarGestureEvent
- SDL_DropEvent
- SDL_Event
- SDL_JoyAxisEvent
- SDL_JoyBallEvent
- SDL_JoyButtonEvent
- SDL_JoyHatEvent
- SDL_KeyboardEvent
- SDL_MouseButtonEvent
- SDL_MouseMotionEvent
- SDL_MouseWheelEvent
- SDL_MultiGestureEvent
- SDL_QuitEvent
- SDL_SysWMEvent
- SDL_TextEditingEvent
- SDL_TextInputEvent
- SDL_TouchButtonEvent
- SDL_TouchFingerEvent
- SDL_UserEvent
- SDL_WindowEvent