buttonEvent.h

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/**
 * PANDA 3D SOFTWARE
 * Copyright (c) Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * All use of this software is subject to the terms of the revised BSD
 * license.  You should have received a copy of this license along
 * with this source code in a file named "LICENSE."
 *
 * @file buttonEvent.h
 * @author drose
 * @date 2000-03-01
 */

#ifndef BUTTONEVENT_H
#define BUTTONEVENT_H

#include "pandabase.h"

#include "buttonHandle.h"
#include "clockObject.h"
#include "modifierButtons.h"

class Datagram;
class DatagramIterator;

/**
 * Records a button event of some kind.  This is either a keyboard or mouse
 * button (or some other kind of button) changing state from up to down, or
 * vice-versa, or it is a single "keystroke".
 *
 * A keystroke is different than a button event in that (a) it does not
 * necessarily correspond to a physical button on a keyboard, but might be the
 * result of a combination of buttons (e.g.  "A" is the result of shift +
 * "a"); and (b) it does not manage separate "up" and "down" events, but is
 * itself an instantaneous event.
 *
 * Normal up/down button events can be used to track the state of a particular
 * button on the keyboard, while keystroke events are best used to monitor
 * what a user is attempting to type.
 *
 * Button up/down events are defined across all the physical keys on the
 * keyboard (and other buttons for which there is a corresponding ButtonHandle
 * object), while keystroke events are defined across the entire Unicode
 * character set.
 */
class EXPCL_PANDA_EVENT ButtonEvent {
public:
  enum Type {
/*
 * T_down and T_up represent a button changing state correspondingly.
 * T_resume_down is a special event that is only thrown when focus is returned
 * to a window and a button is detected as being held down at that point; it
 * indicates that the button should be considered down now (if it wasn't
 * already), but it didn't just get pressed down at this moment, it was
 * depressed some time ago.  It's mainly used for correct tracking of modifier
 * keys like shift and control, and can be ignored for other keys.
 */
    T_down,
    T_resume_down,
    T_up,

    // T_repeat is sent for each a keyrepeat event generated by the system,
    // for a button that is continually held down.  If you want to respect
    // keyrepeat, treat T_down and T_repeat equivalently.
    T_repeat,

    // T_keystroke is a special keystroke event, and is sent along with a
    // Unicode keycode value, not a ButtonHandle.
    T_keystroke,

    // T_candidate is used to indicate that the user is using the IME and has
    // in the process of selecting some possible text to type from a menu.
    T_candidate,

    // T_move is used to indicate that the mouse has moved within the current
    // region.  Button drag mode needs this, others may ignore this event
    T_move,

    // T_raw_down is usually sent together with T_down, except that this is
    // the original, untransformed scan key sent by the keyboard.  It is not
    // altered by modifier keys and acts as if the user is using the US
    // (qwerty) keyboard layout.
    T_raw_down,
    T_raw_up,
  };

  INLINE ButtonEvent();
  INLINE ButtonEvent(ButtonHandle button, Type type, double time = ClockObject::get_global_clock()->get_frame_time());
  INLINE ButtonEvent(int keycode, double time = ClockObject::get_global_clock()->get_frame_time());
  INLINE ButtonEvent(const std::wstring &candidate_string, size_t highlight_start,
                     size_t highlight_end, size_t cursor_pos);
  INLINE ButtonEvent(const ButtonEvent &copy);
  INLINE void operator = (const ButtonEvent &copy);

  INLINE bool operator == (const ButtonEvent &other) const;
  INLINE bool operator != (const ButtonEvent &other) const;
  INLINE bool operator < (const ButtonEvent &other) const;

  INLINE bool update_mods(ModifierButtons &mods) const;

  void output(std::ostream &out) const;

  void write_datagram(Datagram &dg) const;
  void read_datagram(DatagramIterator &scan);

public:
  // _button will be filled in if type is T_down, T_resume_down, or T_up.
  ButtonHandle _button;

  // _keycode will be filled in if type is T_keystroke.  It will be the
  // Unicode character that was typed.
  int _keycode;

  // _candidate_string will be filled in if type is T_candidate.
  std::wstring _candidate_string;
  size_t _highlight_start;
  size_t _highlight_end;
  size_t _cursor_pos;

  // This is the type of the button event (see above).
  Type _type;

  // This is the time the event occurred, as recorded from the OS if that
  // information is available.  It is in seconds elapsed from an arbitrary
  // epoch, and it matches the time reported by
  // ClockObject::get_global_clock().
  double _time;
};

INLINE std::ostream &operator << (std::ostream &out, const ButtonEvent &be) {
  be.output(out);
  return out;
}

#include "buttonEvent.I"

#endif