SoKeyboardEvent Class Reference
Event Classes

The SoKeyboardEvent class contains information about keyboard interaction. More...

`#include <Inventor/events/SoKeyboardEvent.h>`

Inheritance diagram for SoKeyboardEvent:

## Public Types

enum

Key {
ANY = 0 , UNDEFINED = 1 , LEFT_SHIFT = 0xffe1 , RIGHT_SHIFT ,
LEFT_CONTROL , RIGHT_CONTROL , LEFT_ALT = 0xffe9 , RIGHT_ALT ,
NUMBER_0 = 0x0030 , NUMBER_1 , NUMBER_2 , NUMBER_3 ,
NUMBER_4 , NUMBER_5 , NUMBER_6 , NUMBER_7 ,
NUMBER_8 , NUMBER_9 , A = 0x0061 , B ,
C , D , E , F ,
G , H , I , J ,
K , L , M , N ,
O , P , Q , R ,
S , T , U , V ,
W , X , Y , Z ,
HOME = 0xff50 , LEFT_ARROW , UP_ARROW , RIGHT_ARROW ,
DOWN_ARROW , PAGE_UP , PAGE_DOWN , END ,
PRIOR = 0xff55 , NEXT , PAD_ENTER = 0xff8d , PAD_F1 = 0xff91 ,
PAD_F2 , PAD_F3 , PAD_F4 , PAD_0 = 0xff9e ,
PAD_1 = 0xff9c , PAD_2 = 0xff99 , PAD_3 = 0xff9b , PAD_4 = 0xff96 ,
PAD_5 = 0xff9d , PAD_6 = 0xff98 , PAD_7 = 0xff95 , PAD_8 = 0xff97 ,
PAD_9 = 0xff9a , PAD_ADD = 0xffab , PAD_SUBTRACT = 0xffad , PAD_MULTIPLY = 0xffaa ,
PAD_DIVIDE = 0xffaf , PAD_SPACE = 0xff8d , PAD_TAB = 0xff89 , PAD_INSERT = 0xff9e ,
PAD_DELETE = 0xff9f , PAD_PERIOD = 0xff9f , F1 = 0xffbe , F2 ,
F3 , F4 , F5 , F6 ,
F7 , F8 , F9 , F10 ,
F11 , F12 , BACKSPACE = 0xff08 , TAB = 0xff09 ,
RETURN = 0xff0d , ENTER = 0xff0d , PAUSE = 0xff13 , SCROLL_LOCK = 0xff14 ,
ESCAPE = 0xff1b , DELETE = 0xffff , KEY_DELETE = DELETE , PRINT = 0xff61 ,
INSERT = 0xff63 , NUM_LOCK = 0xff7f , CAPS_LOCK = 0xffe5 , SHIFT_LOCK = 0xffe6 ,
SPACE = 0x0020 , APOSTROPHE = 0x0027 , COMMA = 0x002c , MINUS = 0x002d ,
PERIOD = 0x002e , SLASH = 0x002f , SEMICOLON = 0x003b , EQUAL = 0x003d ,
BRACKETLEFT = 0x005b , BACKSLASH = 0x005c , BRACKETRIGHT = 0x005d , GRAVE = 0x0060
}

Public Types inherited from SoButtonEvent
enum | State { UP , DOWN , UNKNOWN }

## Public Member Functions

virtual SoType | getTypeId (void) const
| SoKeyboardEvent (void)
virtual | ~SoKeyboardEvent ()
void | setKey (Key key)
Key | getKey (void) const
void | setPrintableCharacter (const char c)
char | getPrintableCharacter (void) const
Public Member Functions inherited from SoButtonEvent
| SoButtonEvent (void)
virtual | ~SoButtonEvent ()
void | setState (State state)
State | getState (void) const
Public Member Functions inherited from SoEvent
| SoEvent (void)
virtual | ~SoEvent ()
SbBool | isOfType (SoType type) const
void | setTime (const SbTime t)
SbTime | getTime (void) const
void | setPosition (const SbVec2s &p)
const SbVec2s & | getPosition (void) const
const SbVec2s & | getPosition (const SbViewportRegion &vpRgn) const
const SbVec2f & | getNormalizedPosition (const SbViewportRegion &vpRgn) const
void | setShiftDown (SbBool isDown)
SbBool | wasShiftDown (void) const
void | setCtrlDown (SbBool isDown)
SbBool | wasCtrlDown (void) const
void | setAltDown (SbBool isDown)
SbBool | wasAltDown (void) const

## Static Public Member Functions

static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)
static void | initClass (void)
static SbBool | isKeyPressEvent (const SoEvent *e, Key whichKey)
static SbBool | isKeyReleaseEvent (const SoEvent *e, Key whichKey)
static SbBool | enumToString (Key enumval, SbString &stringrep)
Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoButtonEvent
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)
static void | initClass (void)
static SbBool | enumToString (State enumval, SbString &stringrep)
Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoEvent
static SoType | getClassTypeId (void)
static void | initClass (void)

## Detailed Description

The SoKeyboardEvent class contains information about keyboard interaction.

When the user presses any keys on the keyboard, these will be translated from a system specific event into a Coin event and sent to the scene graph by using instances of this class.

See also
  SoEvent, SoButtonEvent, SoMouseButtonEvent, SoSpaceballButtonEvent
  SoEventCallback, SoHandleEventAction

## Member Enumeration Documentation

## Key

enum SoKeyboardEvent::Key

This enum contains all keys detected by Coin.

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

## SoKeyboardEvent()

SoKeyboardEvent::SoKeyboardEvent | ( | void |  | ) |

Constructor.

## ~SoKeyboardEvent()

SoKeyboardEvent::~SoKeyboardEvent | ( |  | ) |

virtual

Destructor.

## Member Function Documentation

## getClassTypeId()

SoType SoKeyboardEvent::getClassTypeId | ( | void |  | ) |

static

This static method returns the SoType object associated with objects of this class.

## getTypeId()

SoType SoKeyboardEvent::getTypeId | ( | void |  | ) | const

virtual

Returns the type identification of an object derived from a class inheriting SoEvent. This is used for runtime type checking and "downward" casting.

Reimplemented from SoButtonEvent.

## initClass()

void SoKeyboardEvent::initClass | ( | void |  | ) |

static

Initialize the type information data.

## setKey()

void SoKeyboardEvent::setKey | ( | SoKeyboardEvent::Key | keyarg | ) |

Set the value of the key which the user interacted with.

This method is used from the window specific device classes when translating events to the generic Coin library.

See also
  getKey()

## getKey()

SoKeyboardEvent::Key SoKeyboardEvent::getKey | ( | void |  | ) | const

Returns the value of the key which was pressed or released.

Coin adds a new key value called UNDEFINED. This is needed to support GUI toolkits where it is not possible to find exactly which key is pressed, and/or to support non-US keyboards. The Open Inventor design for this class is flawed, since it assumes everybody uses a US keyboard. We recommend using getPrintableCharacter() to find which key is pressed/released, at least for printable non-alphanumerical characters.

See also
  getPrintableCharacter(), getState()
  wasShiftDown(), wasCtrlDown(), wasAltDown(), getPosition(), getTime()

## setPrintableCharacter()

void SoKeyboardEvent::setPrintableCharacter | ( | const char | c | ) |

Sets the printable character for this keyboard event. If this method is not called when creating an event, getPrintableCharacter() will convert the SoKeyboardEvent::Key value into a printable character. This conversion does not work on non-US keyboards, so we recommend that you set the printable character using this method instead.

This printable character is cleared each time setKey() is called.

This method is an extension versus the Open Inventor API.

See also
  getPrintableCharacter()

## getPrintableCharacter()

char SoKeyboardEvent::getPrintableCharacter | ( | void |  | ) | const

Return ASCII value which would be generated by the key and modifier combination.

NB! If setPrintableCharacter() hasn't been called, this function does not always work as expected, particularly not on non-US keyboards. The Coin GUI toolkits (SoGtk/SoQt/SoWin/SoXt/Sc21) will set the printable character correctly.

See also
  getKey(), wasShiftDown(), wasCtrlDown(), wasAltDown(), setPrintableCharacter()

## isKeyPressEvent()

SbBool SoKeyboardEvent::isKeyPressEvent | ( | const SoEvent * | e,
|  | SoKeyboardEvent::Key | whichKey )

static

Convenience method for quickly checking if the given event is a key press on the given key, `whichKey`.

See also
  isKeyReleaseEvent(), isOfType(), getKey(), getState()

## isKeyReleaseEvent()

SbBool SoKeyboardEvent::isKeyReleaseEvent | ( | const SoEvent * | e,
|  | SoKeyboardEvent::Key | whichKey )

static

Convenience method for quickly checking if the given event is a key release of the given key, `whichKey`.

See also
  isKeyPressEvent(), isOfType(), getKey(), getState()

## enumToString()

SbBool SoKeyboardEvent::enumToString | ( | Key | enumval,
|  | SbString & | stringrep )

static

Converts from an enum value of type SoKeyboardEvent::State to a string containing the enum symbol.

This function is an extension for Coin, and it is not available in the original SGI Open Inventor v2.1 API.

Since
  Coin 3.0

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

- SoKeyboardEvent.h
- SoKeyboardEvent.cpp