GdkEvent

Description

An object representing an event from the windowing system with data specific to that event.

Fields

state:

  A bit-mask representing the state of the modifier keys (e.g. Control, Shift and Alt) and the pointer buttons.

type:

  The event type

window:

  The GdkWindow the event occurred on.

send_event:

  TRUE if the event was sent explicitly.

area:

  The bounding box of the area to be redrawn.

count:

  The number of contiguous Gdk::EXPOSE events following this one.

time:

  The time of the event in milliseconds.

x:

  The x coordinate of the pointer relative to the window.

y:

  The y coordinate of the pointer relative to the window.

axes:

  x, y translated to the axes of device, or NULL if device is the mouse.

is_hint:

  TRUE if the Gdk::POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK is set.

device:

  The device where the event originated.

x_root:

  The x coordinate of the pointer relative to the root of the screen.

y_root:

  The y coordinate of the pointer relative to the root of the screen.

button:

  The mouse button that was clicked.

keyval:

  The key that was pressed or released.

string:

  A string containing the composed characters resulting from the key press.

hardware_keycode:

  The raw code of the key that was pressed or released.

group:

 The keyboard group.

mode:

  The crossing mode (Gdk::CROSSING_NORMAL, Gdk::CROSSING_GRAB or Gdk::CROSSING_UNGRAB).

detail:

  The kind of crossing that happened.

focus:

  TRUE if window is the focus window or an inferior.

in:

  TRUE if the window has gained the keyboard focus, FALSE if it has lost the focus.

width:

 The new width of the window.

height:

 The new height of the window.

context:

  The GdkDragContext for the DnD operation.