Skip to main content
summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
blob: 03ecb92cb3d7cd255fcec4356ba110386bc5bcad (plain) (blame)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2009 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.swt.events;


import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event;

/**
 * Instances of this class are sent as a result of
 * keys being pressed and released on the keyboard.
 * <p>
 * When a key listener is added to a control, the control
 * will take part in widget traversal.  By default, all
 * traversal keys (such as the tab key and so on) are
 * delivered to the control.  In order for a control to take
 * part in traversal, it should listen for traversal events.
 * Otherwise, the user can traverse into a control but not
 * out.  Note that native controls such as table and tree
 * implement key traversal in the operating system.  It is
 * not necessary to add traversal listeners for these controls,
 * unless you want to override the default traversal.
 * </p>
 *
 * @see KeyListener
 * @see TraverseListener
 * @see <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swt/">Sample code and further information</a>
 */

public class KeyEvent extends TypedEvent {
	
 	/**
 	 * the character represented by the key that was typed.  
	 * This is the final character that results after all modifiers have been
 	 * applied.  For example, when the user types Ctrl+A, the character value
 	 * is 0x01.  It is important that applications do not attempt to modify the
 	 * character value based on a stateMask (such as SWT.CTRL) or the resulting
 	 * character will not be correct.
 	 */
	public char character;
	
	/**
	 * the key code of the key that was typed,
	 * as defined by the key code constants in class <code>SWT</code>.
	 * When the character field of the event is ambiguous, this field
	 * contains the unicode value of the original character.  For example,
	 * typing Ctrl+M or Return both result in the character '\r' but the
	 * keyCode field will also contain '\r' when Return was typed.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.swt.SWT
	 */
	public int keyCode;
	
	/**
	 * depending on the event, the location of key specified by the
	 * keyCode or character. The possible values for this field are
	 * <code>SWT.LEFT</code>, <code>SWT.RIGHT</code>, <code>SWT.KEYPAD</code>,
	 * or <code>SWT.NONE</code> representing the main keyboard area.
	 * <p>
	 * The location field can be used to differentiate key events that have
	 * the same key code and character but are generated by different keys
	 * on the keyboard. For example, a key down event with the key code equal
	 * to SWT.SHIFT can be generated by the left and the right shift keys on
	 * the keyboard.
	 * </p><p>
	 * The location field can only be used to determine the location of
	 * the key code or character in the current event. It does not include
	 * information about the location of modifiers in the state mask.
	 * </p>
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.swt.SWT#LEFT
	 * @see org.eclipse.swt.SWT#RIGHT
	 * @see org.eclipse.swt.SWT#KEYPAD
	 * 
	 * @since 3.6
	 */
	public int keyLocation;
	
	/**
	 * the state of the keyboard modifier keys and mouse masks
	 * at the time the event was generated.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.swt.SWT#MODIFIER_MASK
	 * @see org.eclipse.swt.SWT#BUTTON_MASK
	 */
	public int stateMask;
	
	/**
	 * A flag indicating whether the operation should be allowed.
	 * Setting this field to <code>false</code> will cancel the operation.
	 */
	public boolean doit;

	static final long serialVersionUID = 3256442491011412789L;
	
/**
 * Constructs a new instance of this class based on the
 * information in the given untyped event.
 *
 * @param e the untyped event containing the information
 */
public KeyEvent(Event e) {
	super(e);
	this.character = e.character;
	this.keyCode = e.keyCode;
	this.keyLocation = e.keyLocation;
	this.stateMask = e.stateMask;
	this.doit = e.doit;
}

/**
 * Returns a string containing a concise, human-readable
 * description of the receiver.
 *
 * @return a string representation of the event
 */
public String toString() {
	String string = super.toString ();
	return string.substring (0, string.length() - 1) // remove trailing '}'
		+ " character='" + ((character == 0) ? "\\0" : "" + character) + "'"
		+ " keyCode=" + keyCode
		+ " keyLocation=" + keyLocation
		+ " stateMask=" + stateMask
		+ " doit=" + doit
		+ "}";
}
}

Back to the top