Input handling

Functions
void	getMouseState (MouseState &ms)
bool	getKeyState (scancode_t key)

Detailed Description

Function Documentation

getKeyState()

bool getKeyState

(

scancode_t

key

)

Polls the engine for the current state of a specific key.

Since buttons can be queried individually, multiple pressed keys can be detected, by querying each one of them. The function shall return true if a button has been reported as pressed by a window event between the previous call to the update function and the current call to getKeyState().

Parameters

key	is the scancode ID of the key to query. The available scancodes are listed in the scancodes.h file.

Returns

true if the key is pressed, false otherwise.

See also

setUpdateFunction

getMouseState()

void getMouseState

(

MouseState &

ms

)

Polls the engine for the current state of the mouse.

Stores in the user-provided MouseState record ms, the current status of all mouse events. For more information on what data can be obtained, see the MouseState structure. Typically, this function is used from within the update callback of the application.

Parameters

ms	is the user-provided record to update with the current status of the mouse cursor button and higher-level information such as mouse "dragging" and button "pressed / released".

See also

MouseState

setUpdateFunction