org.eclipse.swt.events
Class KeyEvent

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.eclipse.swt.events.TypedEvent
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        +--org.eclipse.swt.events.KeyEvent

Direct Known Subclasses:

TraverseEvent

public class KeyEvent

extends TypedEvent

Instances of this class are sent as a result of keys being pressed and released on the keyboard

See Also:

KeyListener

Field Summary

char	character the character represented by the key that was typed.
int	keyCode the key code of the key that was typed, as defined by the key code constants in class SWT.
int	stateMask the state of the keyboard modifier keys at the time the event was generated

Constructor Summary

protected	KeyEvent() make this constructor protected to be sure it can't be instanciated from outside this package.
	KeyEvent(Event event) Constructs a new instance of this class based on the information in the given untyped event.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, toString

Field Detail

character

public char character

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 (NUL). 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.

keyCode

public int keyCode

the key code of the key that was typed, as defined by the key code constants in class SWT. 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 Also:

SWT

stateMask

public int stateMask

the state of the keyboard modifier keys at the time the event was generated

Constructor Detail

KeyEvent

protected KeyEvent()

make this constructor protected to be sure it can't be instanciated from outside this package.

KeyEvent

public KeyEvent(Event event)

Constructs a new instance of this class based on the information in the given untyped event.